Depression cake

English

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).
    Synonym: poor man's cake

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