"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 Synonyms: poor man's cake Related terms: war cake
    Sense id: en-Depression_cake-en-noun-zBkmTTlm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Cakes and pastries

Inflected forms

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