angel food

angel food noun: angel food cake, a type of sponge cake made with beaten egg whites and without butter.

Noun

angel food (countable and uncountable, plural angel foods)

(attributive, especially, in-compounds) Angel food cake, a type of sponge cake made with beaten egg whites and without butter.
- The most gorgeous of angel foods. And yet so simple and sure, anyone can do it. Complete — All ingredients, including eggs, are in the package. No eggs to separate. No yolks left over. The package contains more than a dozen egg whites[…]1952 September 15, “LIFE”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 63
- (7) Common Angel Food Faults […] (b) Shrinkage After Baking. Shrinkage after baking may be caused by one of the following: 1. Overbaking the angel food or baking in too cool an oven will cause excessive dehydration. 2. Underbaking or too hot an oven will cause excessive moisture to be entrapped in...1962, United States Supplies and Accounts Bureau, Baking Handbook, page 6
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see angel, food.
- Rugs were laid out covering the grass in Archangel Grace's private garden and all sorts of delicious angel foods were piled high — cloudberry biscuits, honey sandwiches, towers of rainbow jelly and big jugs of star fruit lemonade.2013 August 1, Michelle Misra, Angel Wings: Secrets and Sapphires, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN

(7) Common Angel Food Faults […] (b) Shrinkage After Baking.1962, United States Supplies and Accounts Bureau, Baking Handbook, page 6:
up Through the years it had taxed her ingenuity to use these yolks, for Antha was always whipping up angel foods.1998, Madeline Babcock Smith, The Lemon Jelly Cake, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 51:
Angel Food or “angel cake” is thought to be a takeoff of the cornstarch cake and the sponge cake.2003 June 1, Dawn Marie Schrandt, Just Me Cookin Cakes, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 1:
Right that afternoon she took me to her kitchen and there my cake career began, when she began telling me many things about angel foods that I should remember.2011 March 24, Kari Cornell, Melinda Keefe, The Best of The Farmer's Wife Cookbook: Over 400 Blue-ribbon Recipes!, Voyageur Press (MN)...

plural	angel foods

What does angel food mean?: Angel food means angel food cake, a type of sponge cake made with beaten egg whites and without butter.
How do you use angel food in a sentence?: (7) Common Angel Food Faults […] (b) Shrinkage After Baking.
What part of speech is angel food?: Angel food is a noun.
What is the plural of angel food?: The plural of angel food is angel foods.

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