20 Metaphors for cakes

If this sort of yeast must be depended upon, the cakes known as "Yeast Foam" are the best of any with which we are acquainted.

Short cake is life, ma'am.

The larger the cake the slower should be the baking.

SPICE CAKE This spice cake is economical, easy to make and delicious, three qualities which must appeal to the housewife.

Oxen are often fattened on the seed itself; but the cakes after the oil is expressed are a very common and most excellent article for fattening both black cattle and sheep.

And since, in her habitual half-starved state, all food looked superlatively good to her, cake was the first word she learned to speak.

"Are the cheese-cakes a success, Mrs. McLean?

A cake is the right gift for the trenches, though less so in summer than in winter when appetites are less keen.

"The apples are two cents apiece, ma'am, and the cakes are one cent each.

See Sydney Smith, in 1816, from the failure of the harvest (he who was in London 'a walking patty'), sitting down with his family to repast without bread, thin, unleavened cakes being the substitute.

Cake and pie was a fortune then.

The finished cakes should be not more than three-fourths of an inch thick.

"I member one song we used to sing: 'Hop light lady Cake was all dough Never mind the weather, So the wind don't blow.'

These crisp cakes are a favourite breakfast-dish of the early-rising factory-operative, who finds himself thus saved the drudgery of cooking when he is barely awake and when moreover he is in a hurry to reach the scene of his daily labours.

She'd put down three cakes at a time and let 'em stay there till the cakes were firmabout five minutes on the bare hot hearth.

Oil cakes made from the fiber of the seeds after the oil has been expressed are excellent food for cattle, being rich in nitrogen, and the young seedlings, which are removed at the first weeding of the crop, are sold in the markets for salad and are very popular with the lower classes.

A flat cake was the common form in which most of the bread of olden times was baked; being too brittle to be cut with a knife, the common mode of dividing it was by breaking and hence the expression "breaking bread" so common in Scripture.

" Every time the banquet was mentioned somebody was sure to say, "Well, anyhow, there's Potts's cake," and that reflection never failed to raise the tone of expectation, for Potts's cake was a beauty, evidently very rich and fruity, and fitted by Nature to play the noble part of plum-pudding.

"That," the foreman explained, "is so the cakes of ice will be all the same size, nice and square and even, and will fit closely together when we pile them in the ice house.

Everything on the table is to be cut in heart shape,the bread and butter and sandwiches and cheese; and the ice-cream will be moulded in hearts, and the two big frosted cakes are hearts, one pink and one white, with candy arrows sticking in them.

20 Metaphors for  cakes