Meanings
plural hot-milk cakes
- alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of hot milk cake.
Grandmother’s hot-milk cake is one of my favorite new recipes.
1984 May 16, Jane Fleischaker, “Intriguing recipes are tried and found true”, in The Courier-Journal, volume 258, number 137, Louisville, Ky., page C 1, column 25 more examples
Wellesley fudge cake, chicken croquettes, camp-meeting stew, raisin or funeral pie, apple pandowdy, Philadelphia sticky buns and and^([sic]) hot-milk cake are just a sampling of the recipes reminiscent of the days of yore.
1982 June 13, Mary Hart, “Cookbook”, in Minneapolis Tribune, volume CXVI, number 10, Minneapolis, Minn., page 8K, column 2One dropped by a few weeks ago to get the recipe for a hot-milk cake the pair used to bake and eat after school 36 years ago in West Lafayette, Ind. […] Another former high school teammate, Jim Davis of Lake Geneva, Wis., said Saturday that just a few weeks ago, he stopped by the home of Allen’s mother in Clearwater and asked her for the recipe of a hot-milk cake he and Allen used to eat together in the 1940s.
1988 February 14, Pat Meisol, “‘They are not monstrous’: Teen’s mom says event was horrible, not boys”, in St. Petersburg Times, volume 104, number 205, St. Petersburg, Fla., page 6b, columns 5–6Walworth County Nutrition Program For The Elderly / Human Services Center / Elkhorn / […] / Turkey loaf, sweet potato, winter mix vegetables, cottage cheese with chives, whole grain bread, fresh fruit, hot-milk cake.
1993 April 1, Lake Geneva Regional News, 120 years, number 13, Lake Geneva, Wis.Mazie MacKay’s hot-milk cake has a remarkably tight, moist crumb.
1994 November 30, Sheryl Julian, “Baking power”, in The Boston Globe, volume 246, number 153, Boston, Mass., page 75Of Mother and Memories: A Collection of Heirloom Recipes holds the secrets for making everything from apple pandowdy to hot-milk cake.
1999 November 28, “News in Brief”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 171st year, number 181, Philadelphia, Pa., page BC2, column 1
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