drop-cake

English

Noun

drop-cake (countable and uncountable, plural drop-cakes)

  1. Alternative form of drop cake
    • 1872, Gail Hamilton, Woman's Worth and Worthlessness, page 18:
      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.
    • 1946, William E. Broeg, Roll & Hot Breads Make-up, page 84:
      This should be of the consistency of a thoroughly medium stiff drop-cake.
    • 2011, Ann Treistman, Who Put the Devil in Deviled Eggs?:
      Beat to the consistency of drop-cake, and drop a tablespoonful for each biscuit on a buttered pan.
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