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Depression cakes

Depression cakes is the plural of Depression cake.

Meaning of Depression cake

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

Questions about Depression cakes

What is Depression cakes the plural of?
Depression cakes is the plural of Depression cake.

Words near Depression cakes in the dictionary

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

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