drop-cake

drop-cake

English

Noun

drop-cake (countable and uncountable, plural drop-cakes)

1. Alternative form of drop cake
   • 1872, Gail Hamilton, Woman's Worth and Worthlessness, page 18:

     I stood in despair contemplating my ten outstretched fingers, daubed and draped with embryo drop-cake, and looking for all the world like web-feet.

   • 1946, William E. Broeg, Roll & Hot Breads Make-up, page 84:

     This should be of the consistency of a thoroughly medium stiff drop-cake.

   • 2011, Ann Treistman, Who Put the Devil in Deviled Eggs?:

     Beat to the consistency of drop-cake, and drop a tablespoonful for each biscuit on a buttered pan.