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Depression cake

Depression cake noun: a kind of cake, common during the Depression and still baked today, that used little or no milk, butter, eggs, and sometimes sugar (as these were expensive or unobtainable).

Noun

Depression cake (countable and uncountable, plural Depression cakes)

  1. A kind of cake, common during the Depression and still baked today, that used little or no milk, butter, eggs, and sometimes sugar (as these were expensive or unobtainable).
    Synonyms:
    poor man's cake

Synonyms of Depression cake

Forms of Depression cake

pluralDepression cakes

Questions about Depression cake

What does Depression cake mean?
Depression cake means a kind of cake, common during the Depression and still baked today, that used little or no milk, butter, eggs, and sometimes sugar (as these were expensive or unobtainable).
What part of speech is Depression cake?
Depression cake is a noun.
What is the plural of Depression cake?
The plural of Depression cake is Depression cakes.

Words near Depression cake in the dictionary

  1. depressible
  2. depressing
  3. depressingly
  4. depressingness
  5. depression
  6. Depression cake
  7. Depression cakes
  8. Depression glass
  9. depressional
  10. depressionary
  11. depressionism

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