Depression cake
English
Noun
Depression
cake
(
countable and uncountable
,
plural
Depression cakes
)
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).
Synonyms
poor man's cake
See also
war cake
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