What's the difference between cake and rusk?

Cake


Definition:

  • (n.) A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
  • (n.) A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.
  • (n.) A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
  • (n.) A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake.
  • (v. i.) To form into a cake, or mass.
  • (v. i.) To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.
  • (v. i.) To cackle as a goose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "With hyperspectral imaging, you can tell the chemical content of a cake just by taking a photo of it.
  • (2) Okawa, who became the world's oldest person last June following the death at 116 of fellow Japanese Jiroemon Kimura , was given a cake with just three candles at her nursing home in Osaka – one for each figure in her age.
  • (3) The physical effects of chlorination as demonstrated by experiments with batters and cakes and by physicochemical observations of flour and its fractions are also considered.
  • (4) You’d be staggered by the number of dimwitted debutantes who stand for photos next to cakes iced with the famous double-C. You know how you wanted a Spider-Man cake when you were little, and your mum made you Spider-Man cake, and it was the happiest birthday of your life?
  • (5) About 35 million were egg-laying hens that provided 80% of the eggs for the breaker market – eggs broken then liquefied, dried or frozen to be used in processed foods like mayonnaise and pancake mixes, or sold to bakeries to make cakes, cookies and other products.
  • (6) On the programme, the bakes begin to become divorced from their function as food; they become symbols, like the cardboard cakes that were sometimes used at British weddings during the war when shortages ruled out the real thing.
  • (7) Layer Cake was credited as Craig’s audition for James Bond.
  • (8) There's squash and cake, and the atmosphere is a bit like a staff meeting, something the teenagers don't have much experience of.
  • (9) The Norwegian researchers looked at all the sources of caffeine ingested by the pregnant women, including coffee, tea and fizzy drinks, along with cakes and desserts containing cocoa (which has lots of caffeine).
  • (10) When it comes to Donald Trump, the cake is baked, and almost everything that happens – negative or positive – only serves to reinforce existing perceptions of the candidates.
  • (11) Female undergraduates (N = 50 and N = 46 in the two studies) were given cards containing the names of randomly-selected generic foods (e.g., cakes, melons) and were asked to "group the foods according to how you think about them when it comes to eating them".
  • (12) At stake: rice cakes, a gift basket, and a somewhat condescending hockey puck.
  • (13) In general, healthy panelists evaluated the cakes as sweeter, crust bitterness as greater, and overall eating quality as higher than the panel members with carbohydrate metabolic disorders.
  • (14) To make the ricotta cakes, separate the egg yolks from the whites, putting the whites into a bowl large enough to beat them in.
  • (15) But what started out as a simple, easy to collect tax – a low, flat rate imposed on most goods and services – has become increasingly complex, with exemptions for everything from children's clothes to Jaffa Cakes.
  • (16) Today, with published documents augmented by journalistic and academic research, we can see exactly how the Maastricht cake was baked.
  • (17) Percentage dry matter of the litter and a subjective evaluation of general litter conditions (moisture and caking) were scored weekly, with the percentage nitrogen and total quality of litter produced in each chamber measured at the conclusion of the study.
  • (18) Sensory evaluation indicated no significant differences (P less than 0.05) between the control and 10 per cent bran cakes for moistness, flavor, and overall acceptability.
  • (19) Bonus recipe: stress-free custard I was taught how to make this by Claire Ptak, who runs Violet Cakes in east London.
  • (20) At a recent rally in Dresden, Bachmann’s hometown, he told his followers that while asylum seekers enjoyed luxury accommodation, many impoverished German pensioners were “unable to even afford a single slice of Stollen” (German Christmas cake).

Rusk


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of light, soft bread made with yeast and eggs, often toasted or crisped in an oven; or, a kind of sweetened biscuit.
  • (n.) A kind of light, hard cake or bread, as for stores.
  • (n.) Bread or cake which has been made brown and crisp, and afterwards grated, or pulverized in a mortar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The food they give us is biscuits, rusks and apples.
  • (2) The sucrose in the rusks, rather than their content of other sugars such as glucose, maltose and lactose, etc, emerged as a major factor in determining their effect on teeth, but cereal components can also play a part in governing adhesiveness and fermentability.
  • (3) A review of recent research conducted at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in New York City concerning speech and language deficits in closed head injured patients (CHI).
  • (4) The caries scores in the animal experiments ranged from very high, with rampant dental destruction, for 31%-sucrose rusks, down to virtually non-cariogenic on a zero-sucrose variety.
  • (5) Exposure tests with ispaghula powder mixed with crushed rusks were made in symptomatic subjects.
  • (6) The strain was cultivated for seven days at high relative humidity on a substrate mostly of cereals (Karlovarské suchary--Carlsbad rusks).
  • (7) But we can replace a large proportion of the beef in lasagne ready meals or rusk in sausages with buckwheat without the taste being affected, and consumers eating a more sustainable meal.” • This article was updated on 20 August.
  • (8) Especially popular with local lawyers at lunchtime, this small taverna’s excellent menu includes such classic Cretan dishes as barley rusks topped with tomatoes and mizithra cheese and peppery sautéed wild greens.
  • (9) Howard A. Rusk earned the approbation "Father of Rehabilitation Medicine" when he first demonstrated that rehabilitation of the ill and injured made it possible to restore meaning to life and at the same time reduce the duration and costs of disability.
  • (10) The US secretary of state, Dean Rusk, told one of the secretary general's aides that President Kennedy was "extremely upset" and was threatening to withdraw support from the UN.
  • (11) The commonest age for starting solid feeding was between 3 and 4 weeks and the practice of adding rusk or cereal to the bottle was common.
  • (12) As well as having to appeal to Asda Woman or Worcester Woman or Mumsnet Woman, or any other variety of female dreamed up by male wonks who go red when a lady speaks to them, the leader's wife can be expected to be derided as "out of touch" if she doesn't know the price of a packet of custard creams or a rusk or something.
  • (13) In response to concern over the sugar content and possible dental effects of infants' rusks, a programme of research was undertaken to compare six different kinds of rusk with respect to (a) their cariogenicity in caries-active laboratory rats; (b) their capacity to serve as substrates for acid production by oral microorganisms, and the attack of this acid on dental mineral; (c) the adhesiveness of the rusks to the enamel surface.
  • (14) The N-terminal segment of human interleukin-2 (hIL-2) appears to mediate binding of the beta hIL-2 receptor (R. Robb, C. Rusk, J. Yodoi, and W. Greene, Proc.
  • (15) In addition, Rusk and Betts have been magnificent in attracting the public's attention to the needs of the disabled.
  • (16) In my experience, this distinguished list of advocates has included Rusk, Kottke, Lowman, Lehmann, Spencer, Ditunno and Materson.
  • (17) Only 20 brands were recommended for use as emergency rations or as nutritious supplements; eight brands were similar to traditional baked biscuits and four were infant rusks.

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