Meaning of angel food | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Angel food cake, a type of sponge cake made with beaten egg whites and without butter.
   attributive, countable, especially, in-compounds, uncountable
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see angel, food.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“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[…]”

“(7) Common Angel Food Faults […] (b) Shrinkage After Baking. Shrinkage after baking may be caused by one of the following: 1. Overbaking the angel food or baking in too cool an oven will cause excessive dehydration. 2. Underbaking or too hot an oven will cause excessive moisture to be entrapped in cake and insufficient setting of structure.”

“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[…]”

“Angel Food or “angel cake” is thought to be a takeoff of the cornstarch cake and the sponge cake. There are several theories on who originated [it].”

“Right that afternoon she took me to her kitchen and there my cake career began, when she began telling me many things about angel foods that I should remember. "The first afternoon I did not do a thing but watch."”

“The technique for making angel food cupcakes and chiffon cupcakes illustrates another type of mixing. Angel food cupcakes have no leavening and depend on well-beaten egg whites for their light texture. For chiffon cupcakes,[…]”

“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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