Question:
Why doesn't pound cake weigh a pound?
Answer:
Experts say that the dish was traditionally made with a pound of flour, a pound of butter, and a pound of sugar. (Wouldn't that make it a three-pound cake?)
Interestingly, that same concept explains the name of another dessert: cupcakes.
The original recipes called for a cup each of flour, butter, and sugar, not because they're baked in little paper cups.
Taken from: 2009 Page A Day Calendar (Workman Publishing)
3 comments:
Oddly, "cupcake" (single word) can also refer to the, errr...., cake baked in a pottery container, namely, a "cup", as you mentioned, not the paper cups.
I usually find pound cakes a little plain, so I started making them a little fancier this year by using eggnog. Works wonderfully!
Cool...You should put up a blog post on them one day!
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