Pound Cakes Delicious Homemade and Healthy

Pound Cakes
Delicious Homemade and Healthy

Ah yes, yee ol’ Pound Cake! I make this very British comment because the cake was said to have originated in merry ol’ England, and was very popular by the mid 1700s.
This cake gets its name from the original cakes consisting of a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour. Many, many eggs were added to cut the butter but nothing could cut the calories. (Maybe that’s why the ladies all wore hoopskirts and bustles back then.)
By the 1800s, it is interesting to note, most bakers measured in weight, not volume as is common today.
Leavening, (as in adding yeast to make bread rise) for these cakes of old was done by creaming the butter and sugar together, then whipping the eggs till white and frothy when added to the mixture the poor baker stirred (by hand) one hundred strokes. This gave the cake sufficient aeration making it rise to a nice fluffy height in the baking pan. Modern day cooks cheat when making Pound Cake by using electric mixers, and adding baking soda.

This cake is NOT, I repeat NOT a cake for beginners, or the faint of heart. It takes patients and concentration. If you have distractions, such as small children, DO NOT attempt to make this cake without a babysitter.
After creaming all the butter, sugar, and eggs together, one has to SLOWLY mix in the dry ingredients, being careful to scrape the sides of the bowl often, making sure to thoroughly combine all ingredients. If you over-beat the mixture, it will make a hard cake when baked, but if you under-beat, the cake will not rise sufficiently. The pan, (especially if its a bundt pan) must be well greased because the high sugar content makes the cake stick easily.
If you find a recipe you are willing to tackle, go ahead with my blessing. You are far braver than I for I have never baked a Pound Cake. Not because I don’t like it but rather, because I prefer SUCCESS in baking. Frayed nerves, and a hard, flat cake containing all those expensive ingredients doesn’t sound like a fun day in the kitchen to this ol’ girl. I don’t even have a good Pound Cake recipe to pass along, but if you are adventurous and find a recipe you’d like to tackle, be my guest!

If you own an easy recipe for this particular cake that you have successfully baked in the past, send it along to this website and we may just post it for others to try their hand.

Happy baking with Granny Tam…

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