α. 1800s– angel's food cake, 1800s– angels food cake, 1800s– angels' food cake.
β. 1800s– angel food cake.
angel food caken.
/ˈeɪn(d)ʒ(ə)l fuːd ˌkeɪk/, U.S. /ˈeɪndʒəl ˌfud ˌkeɪk/ Originally and chiefly North American.
A type of cake made without fat, using beaten egg white rather than whole eggs, typically baked in a ring-shaped tin and having a distinctively pale colour and light, springy texture. Cf. angel cake n. 1.
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Savoy cake?1750
sponge cake1808
muffin1835
Madeira cake1845
Victoria sandwich1861
angels' food1865
marble cake1871
sponge1877
angel cake1878
angel food cake1878
layer cake1882
sponge sandwich1884
Lady Baltimore cake1889
sand cake1892
sandwich cake1911
Victoria sponge1934
red velvet1951
1878 Alton (Illinois) Daily Tel. 13 Dec. At Keith's Star Bakery..can be found the exquisite Angels' Food Cake.
1952 Oakland (Calif.) Trib. 23 Jan. Now it is possible for anybody, old or young, to bake a true angels-food cake..the cake which has always been considered the most difficult of all baking feats.
2009 Down East Mar. 35/3 Among the dessert standouts is the angel food cake..scarcely related to the bland, Styrofoam-like air-bricks found in grocery stores.
Compounds
As a modifier. Designating a high-sided cake tin used specifically for baking angel food cake, typically being circular in form (often with a removable base), and having a hollow tube or cone in the centre so as to produce a ring-shaped cake, as in angel food cake pan, angel food cake tin, etc. Cf. angel cake n. Compounds, tube pan n. at tube n. Additions.
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1900 Mt. Pleasant (Iowa) Daily News 28 Feb. (advt.) Angel food cake pan, 8c[ents].
1924 Lake County Times (Hammond, Indiana) 26 Apr. 14 (advt.) Angel food cake form. $1.25.
2004 Spectator (Hamilton, Ont.) (Nexis) 14 Dec. (Food section) g14 This cinnamon coffee cake is baked in an angel food cake tin.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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