In a dictionary that Christopher Koonooka translated from Yupik to English, there are words describing wavy ice, shore fast ice, smallcakes of ice, and thin ice overlapped like shingles.
These small but dense cakes filled with lotus paste and a whole egg-yolk centre symbolise the full moon, and it is the accepted practice to share a cake with friends, family and colleagues.
On a road trip that my husband Brian and I took down highway 61 in Mississippi I spotted many Lane cakes in diners hidden in the cotton fields and even in small town airport groceries.
At the Alwinton Border Shepherds' Show in Northumberland (October) anyone can nominate a new category for a small fee - so if you have a unique talent for carving dinosaurs out of butternut squashes or baking cakes that taste like burgers, next year that rosette could be yours.