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Definition of Pound cake
1. Noun. Rich loaf cake made of a pound each of butter and sugar and flour.
Definition of Pound cake
1. Noun. (American English) A dense yellow cake; the traditional recipe consists of a pound (unit of weight) each of butter, eggs, flour, and sugar. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pound Cake
Literary usage of Pound cake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1824)
"A good pound cake. Beat a pound of butter to a cream, and mix with it the whites
and yolks of eight eggs beaten apart. Have ready warm by the fire, ..."
2. The Improved Housewife: Or Book of Receipts, with Engravings for Marketing by A. L. Webster (1855)
"Confectioner's pound cake. Rub to a cream, 20 ounces of sugar and twelve of butter
... pound cake. Rub one pound of sugar and three-quarters of butter to a ..."
3. The Boston Cooking-school Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896)
"pound cake. 1 Ib. butter. Whites 10 eggs. 1 Ib. sugar. 1 lit. flour. Yolks 10 eggs.
% teaspoon mace. 2 tablespoons brandy. Cream the butter, add sugar ..."
4. Buckeye Cookery and Practical Housekeeping by Estelle Woods Wilcox (1877)
"CITRON POUND-CAKE. One pound sugar, one of flour, three-fourths pound butter,
... SOFT POUND-CAKE. Half pound butter, one of sugar, one of flour, ..."
5. The Young Lady's Book: A Manual of Amusements, Exercises, Studies, and Pursuits by Matilda Anne Planche Mackarness (1888)
"pound cake. One pound of fresh butter, one pound of loaf sugar in powder, one
pound of dried and sifted flour, eight fresh eggs, beaten, the grated rind and ..."
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