"Depression cake" meaning in All languages combined

See Depression cake on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: Depression cakes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-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). Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Cakes and pastries Synonyms: poor man's cake Related terms: war cake

Inflected forms

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