Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of flakiness.
The flakeyness will depend entirely on having the dough dry, keeping all ingredients cold and not letting the dough get messed up.
1916, “Flakey Pie Crust”, in “Pastry”, in Amy L[ittlefield] Handy, compiler, What We Cook on Cape Cod, Sandwich, Mass.: The Shawme Press, Inc., page 682 more examples
Brine-Salt made by any former Proceſs, all poſſible care being taken, has evermore two main defects, flakeyneſs and ſoftneſs.
1746 July 8, Thomas Lowndes, Brine-Salt Improved: or, The Method of Making Salt from Brine, That Shall Be as Good or Better than French Bay-Salt. […], page 13The upper Ordovician Martinsburg formation, which lies beneath most of this section of valley, is easy to recognize by its dark gray color, flakeyness, and interbeds of muddy sandstone.
1990, Bradford B[abbitt] Van Diver, “The Lincoln Highway”, in “US 30: Breezewood—Gettysburg”, in Roadside Geology of Pennsylvania (Roadside Geology Series), Missoula, Mont.: Mountain Press Publishing Company, published September 2005 (3rd printing), →ISBN, section III (Southeastern Pennsylvania), page 306
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