| 单词 | marble cake |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmarble cake marble cake n. originally U.S. a cake made from two mixtures of contrasting colours, swirled together to produce a marbled effect; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > sponge-cake 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 1871 Mrs. T. J. V. Owen Illinois Cook Bk. 202 Marble Cake... White part... Three teacupsful white sugar,..Dark part... Three teacupsful brown sugar, One teacupful molasses, [etc.]. 1903 K. D. Wiggin Rebecca Sunnybrook Farm xxvi. 290 She began to stir the marble cake. 1971 M. McCarthy Birds of Amer. 74 My husband used to like a marble cake. 1995 J. Shreeve Neandertal Enigma (1996) vii. 184 The sediments of Kebara are thick with these ancient hearths, so dense in places they turn the wall of the excavation into marble cake, with swirls of black and gray ash lacing the brick-red sediments. < as lemmas |
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