flannel-cake

There was a town down there, as flat as a flannel-cake, and called

Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

Old Dominion cooking -- the marrowy flannel-cake, the cellular waffle, the chicken melting in a beatitude of cream gravy: when the house is pressed with its hundreds of midsummer guests these choice individualities of kitchen chemistry are not attainable; but even then the bread, the roast, the coffee -- a great _chef_ is known by the quality of his simples -- are of the true Fifth Avenue style of excellence.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various

There was a town down there, as flat as a flannel-cake, and called

The Ransom of Red Chief 1907

There was a town down there, as flat as a flannel-cake, and called

Whirligigs O. Henry 1886