angel’s food, noun phrase

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Also angels’ food, and with initial capitals.
Fruit salad.
1891 H.J. Duckitt Hilda’s ‘Where Is It?’ 212Salad (Guava Salad, or ‘Angel’s Food’). (A favourite Cape dish.)
1912 Bloemfontein Post 7 Sept. 16 (Pettman)We were fortified by luscious coffee and mystic trifle, and angel’s food, and ambrosia, and spiced stars.
1913 A. Glossop Barnes’s S. Afr. Hsehold Guide 103Fruit Salad or Angel’s Food.
1951 S. van H. Tulleken Prac. Cookery Bk 242Angels’ Food. Peel 6 oranges very thickly,..cut into very thin slices; peel and slice 10 bananas, 8 guavas..1 pineapple. Sprinkle 1½ cups sugar over, and just before serving, add 1 wineglass sherry.
1970 G. Westwood Bright Wilderness 139Bowls full of sliced paw-paw, oranges, grenadillas, bananas and pineapples. ‘Angel’s food,’ said Nan. ‘A Ball would not be complete without Angel’s Food.’
1973 Farmer’s Weekly 9 May 98The Cape can provide good fruit salads. Angels’ food consists of alternate layers of sliced guava and orange.
1973 Radio South Africa 11 Nov. (Test the Team)‘What is the old-fashioned name for fruit salad?’ ‘We used to call it angels’ food.’
Fruit salad.
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