why is pound cake called pound cake anyway, that folk etymology of "you use a pound of flour and a pound of butter and a pound of sugar" sounds kinda fake, is it real?
...in case you haven't noticed i've been distracting myself from the world being a mess with looking at recipes for various confections
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@Felthry I mean anything with that much butter and sugar will taste good
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@noiob yeah it's just that what has me wondering is that using a pound each would result in a four-pound cake (once you include the eggs too, which you also supposedly use a pound of) and that feels like a lot of cake
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@noiob @LexYeen@snouts.online actually apparently looking it up it's not as much as i'd thought and a regular old supermarket cake mix produces a 3lb cake (including icing in the weight though)
so it'd be about 30~50% bigger than a regular old 2-layer cake
though the finished pound cake probably doesn't weigh four pounds because moisture is lost while baking and hm.
