angel's-food cake

A form of angel food cake — A type of light sponge cake which originated in the United States, made with whipped egg whites (which give it an aerated texture), flour, and sugar, without butter.

Meanings

nounangel's-food cake (plural angel's-food cakes)

plural angel's-food cakes

  1. rareRare form of angel food cake.

    A mammoth angel’s-food cake was artistically decorated by the emblematical candles.

    1930 October 21, “Friends Honor Woman on Her 92nd Birthday”, in Chattanooga Daily Times, volume LXI, number 310, Chattanooga, Tenn., page 13, column 5
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    An Atchison woman decided to give a Dutch lunch for her husband and a half-dozen men friends / So she bought three pint bottles of beer, half a loaf of rye bread, two angel’s-food cakes and a box of chocolates.

    1909 March 30, “Her “Dutch Lunch.””, in The Journal, volume XXX, number 95, Logan, Ut., page five

    REGULARLY SELLING AT $3.50 TO $4.50 A SUIT! Imagine! As good news as though your neighbor had brought in an old-fashioned angel’s-food cake and sat it on the kitchen table.

    1918 August 14, The State Journal, Lansing, Mich., page 5
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