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drop-cake en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of drop cake.
I stood in despair contemplating my ten outstretched fingers, daubed and draped with embryo drop-cake, and looking for all the world like web-feet.
1872, Gail Hamilton, Woman's Worth and Worthlessness, page 18:This should be of the consistency of a thoroughly medium stiff drop-cake.
1946, William E. Broeg, Roll & Hot Breads Make-up, page 84:Beat to the consistency of drop-cake, and drop a tablespoonful for each biscuit on a buttered pan.
2011, Ann Treistman, Who Put the Devil in Deviled Eggs?:
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