English Explanatory Dictionary

Depression cake

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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).

Word forms

Depression cake Depression cakes

Synonyms

poor man's cake

Related words

war cake
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