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The Question:
Where did pound cake get it's name?
because it called for a pound of each of four ingredients — flour, butter, eggs, and sugar
ReplyDeletewesttxangel@ymail.com
Pound cakes were originally made with a pound of flour, butter, eggs, and sugar.
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Elaine loves2stitch@charter.net
Because a pound of sugar, a pound of butter, a pound of eggs, and a pound of flour was used to make a pound cake.
ReplyDeletecindi@azza.com
Poundcake got it's name because of the equal weight of it's ingredients (a pound of each) :)
ReplyDeletesherig60@yahoo.com
original pound cakes contained one pound each of butter, sugar, eggs, and flour.
ReplyDeletesweetthing_1962@yahoo.com
The name comes from the fact that the original pound cakes contained one pound each of butter, sugar, eggs, and flour. No leaveners were used other than the air whipped into the batter. In the days when many people couldn't read, this simple convention made it simple to remember recipes.
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The name comes from the fact that the original pound cakes contained one pound each of butter, sugar, eggs, and flour.
ReplyDeletecrysmc@yahoo.com
The cake was made with a pound of each of the ingredients (flour, butter, sugar & eggs) measured in English pounds. Interestingly 8 eggs = 1 lb. In England several kinds of dried fruits were also used. French style pound cake was 4quarters of the main ingredients with no fruit of any kind). Interesting to see all the cultural variations of this cake since some of the others introduce wine, chocolate or lemon juice, cream or sugar coating, and nuts.
ReplyDeleteAunt Carla
Pound cake calls for one pound of each of the ingredients - flour, butter, sugar and eggs; hence the name. :)
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jade_dragonfly@hotmail.com
original pound cakes contained one pound each of butter, sugar, eggs, and flour.
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ReplyDeletePound Cake got its name from the ingredient amounts. Many of the original recipes called for a pound each of flour, sugar, butter and eggs hence the name “Pound Cake”. ...ciao4now64@yahoo.com.
ReplyDeleteThis is fun!!
ReplyDeletePound cake got it's name because the recipe called for a lb of eggs, lb of sugar, lb of flour and a lb of butter.
YUM now I want some cake LOL
Ellen
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The name comes from the fact that the original pound cakes contained one pound each of butter, sugar, eggs, and flour.
ReplyDeletePound cake got it's name from the fact the original pound cake contained one pound each of it's ingredents
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Pound cake refers to a type of cake traditionally made with a pound of each of four ingredients: flour, butter, eggs, and sugar. The traditional recipe makes a cake much larger than most families can consume, and so the quantity is often changed to suit the size of the cake that is desired. As long as the ratio is preserved, the resulting cake will be identical to that using the traditional recipe. Hence, any cake made with a 1:1:1:1 ratio of flour, butter, eggs, and sugar is also called a pound cake, even if the quantity used is smaller or larger than an actual pound. ~ Wikipedia.
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Pound cake got its name by the way you make it, a pound each of butter, sugar, eggs, and flour.
ReplyDeleteKimberley
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Apound of butter, flour sugar....
ReplyDeleteA ound of each of the major ingredients. Judy swaner martinez
ReplyDeletejesseandjudymartinez@yahoo.com
pound cakes were originally made with 1 lb each of the main ingredients such as flour, sugar, butter. sure hope I win the cutting board-but it is too cute to use-I would just hang it in the kitchen-Karen, onebarneyfife@comcast.net
ReplyDeletePound cake gets its name from being equal ratio of 1 pound each butter, flour, egg and sugar.
ReplyDeletePound get it's name from a pound each of butter, sugar, and eggs use to make the cake.
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