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Depression cake

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 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).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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Synonyms: poor man's cake

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