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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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