angel food

Definitions

1. 1

   Angel food cake, a type of sponge cake made with beaten egg whites and without butter.

   • The most gorgeous of angel foods. And yet so simple and sure, anyone can do it. Complete — All ingredients, including eggs, are in the package. No eggs to separate. No yolks left over. The package contains more than a dozen egg whites[…]
   • up Through the years it had taxed her ingenuity to use these yolks, for Antha was always whipping up angel foods. Mama made jars of salad dressing and all varieties of yellow cake and custards, not to mention a supper dish called[…]
2. 2

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see angel, food.

   • Rugs were laid out covering the grass in Archangel Grace's private garden and all sorts of delicious angel foods were piled high — cloudberry biscuits, honey sandwiches, towers of rainbow jelly and big jugs of star fruit lemonade.

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