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drop-cake en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of drop cake.
    alt 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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