hot-milk cake

A form of hot milk cake — An American butter sponge cake that uses scalded milk in the batter.

Meanings

nounhot-milk cake (countable and uncountable, plural hot-milk cakes)

plural hot-milk cakes

  1. 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 2
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    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 2

    One 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 5–6

    Walworth 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 75

    Of 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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