hot-milk cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot-milk cakes
Senses: examples: text: Wellesley fudge cake, chicken croquettes, camp-meeting stew, raisin or funeral pie, apple pandowdy, Philadelphia sticky buns and and^([sic]) hot-milk cake are just a sampling of the recipes reminiscent of the days of yore.
ref: 1982 June 13, Mary Hart, “Cookbook”, in Minneapolis Tribune, volume CXVI, number 10, Minneapolis, Minn., page 8K, column 2:
text: Grandmother’s hot-milk cake is one of my favorite new recipes.
ref: 1984 May 16, Jane Fleischaker, “Intriguing recipes are tried and found true”, in The Courier-Journal, volume 258, number 137, Louisville, Ky., page C 1, column 2:
text: One dropped by a few weeks ago to get the recipe for a hot-milk cake the pair used to bake and eat after school 36 years ago in West Lafayette, Ind. […] Another former high school teammate, Jim Davis of Lake Geneva, Wis., said Saturday that just a few weeks ago, he stopped by the home of Allen’s mother in Clearwater and asked her for the recipe of a hot-milk cake he and Allen used to eat together in the 1940s.
ref: 1988 February 14, Pat Meisol, “‘They are not monstrous’: Teen’s mom says event was horrible, not boys”, in St. Petersburg Times, volume 104, number 205, St. Petersburg, Fla., page 6b, columns 5–6:
text: Walworth County Nutrition Program For The Elderly / Human Services Center / Elkhorn / […] / Turkey loaf, sweet potato, winter mix vegetables, cottage cheese with chives, whole grain bread, fresh fruit, hot-milk cake.
ref: 1993 April 1, Lake Geneva Regional News, 120 years, number 13, Lake Geneva, Wis.:
text: Mazie MacKay’s hot-milk cake has a remarkably tight, moist crumb.
ref: 1994 November 30, Sheryl Julian, “Baking power”, in The Boston Globe, volume 246, number 153, Boston, Mass., page 75:
text: Of Mother and Memories: A Collection of Heirloom Recipes holds the secrets for making everything from apple pandowdy to hot-milk cake.
ref: 1999 November 28, “News in Brief”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 171st year, number 181, Philadelphia, Pa., page BC2, column 1:
text: THe^([sic]) first recipe is one for a hot-milk cake similar to one that my Aunt Belle used to make for us kids after school.
ref: 1999 October 13, Marcelle Bienvenu, “Show youngsters down with quick, easy after-school treats”, in The Times, Shreveport, La., page 2D, column 3:
text: We also polished off every crumb of a golden-yellow hot-milk cake made by the wife of Ladew’s head gardener.
ref: 2001 June 28, Robin Tunnicliff Reid, “Start a summer picnic at the Ladew Cafe”, in The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, Md., page 18t, column 5:
text: 50 COOKING Hot-Milk Cakes […] When you beat scalded milk into a cake batter, a robust mixture turns thin, runny, and looks ruined. But something magical is happening, and the results – the classic hot-milk cake, which dates at least to the Great Depression – are light, buttery, and golden.
ref: 2004 November 7, Sheryl Julian, Julie Riven, “Milk Run”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 266, number 130, Boston, Mass., pages 50 and 50:
text: Matter of fact, among “Taste of Home” magazine’s top 2010 recipes were macaroni and cheese, meatloaf, fried chicken, chicken and dumplings and hot-milk cake!
ref: 2011 October 5, Mary Kleiss, “Comfort foods have never left”, in Charlotte Sun, volume 119, number 278, Port Charlotte, Fla.: Sun Coast Media Group, section “Port Charlotte Herald”, page 10:
text: The monstrous three-layer hot-milk cake spilled off our plate.
ref: 2016 January 24, Suzanne Loudermilk, “Ignore decor, and enjoy the food, y’all”, in The Baltimore Sun, 179th year, number 24, Baltimore, Md., A&E section, page 4, column 4:
glosses: Alternative form of hot milk cake.