angel's-food cake

See also: angel's food cake

English

Noun

angel's-food cake (plural angel's-food cakes)

1. Rare form of angel food cake.
   • 1909 March 30, “Her “Dutch Lunch.””, in The Journal, volume XXX, number 95, Logan, Ut., page five:

     An Atchison woman decided to give a Dutch lunch for her husband and a half-dozen men friends / So she bought three pint bottles of beer, half a loaf of rye bread, two angel’s-food cakes and a box of chocolates.

   • 1918 August 14, The State Journal, Lansing, Mich., page 5:

     REGULARLY SELLING AT $3.50 TO $4.50 A SUIT! Imagine! As good news as though your neighbor had brought in an old-fashioned angel’s-food cake and sat it on the kitchen table.

   • 1930 October 21, “Friends Honor Woman on Her 92nd Birthday”, in Chattanooga Daily Times, volume LXI, number 310, Chattanooga, Tenn., page 13, column 5:

     A mammoth angel’s-food cake was artistically decorated by the emblematical candles.