Here in the Philly region…when someone says they’re bringing a “Stocks” pound cake to the event, everyone seems to smile & eyes light up as they are known as The Best & so yummy!
I’m finally down south & on another note regarding food…I’m going to have breakfast at “Waffle 🧇House” tomorrow ~ my 1st time… I can’t wait!!! 🥰
You gone wet yor whistle MARILYN. Tell em you wants the hash brown. "Scattered Smothered and covered- mebe cubed and chucked too. You them you want it " on da Haus! " good luck wid Dat urn!
I have never, not once, ever, had, or even seen a pound cake at any gathering, family function, or potluck in Kansas, where I have lived most of my life. This is a sad, sad tale which I will need to remedy at the next church potluck, a week and a half away!
Rendee, you can't eats just one. You walk in but you crawls out!. Dat pound cake is "Nose Pickin Good!" RicCy told me Dat urn! Sho nuff girl you been deprived!
The original recipe was essentially a cake that was made from a pound of flour, a pound of sugar, a pound of butter, and a pound of eggs. This is what believed where the pound cake received it's name?!.
My mom made a lemon pound cake, which makes my mouth water just thinking about it! Yum. I think I have her recipe somewhere. I need to dig it out and make one. But, too bad, I missed Pound Cake Day! You, Sean, were so right about pound cakes being for every celebration. She would bring her pound cake to meetings for the refreshments, take one to anyone just out of the hospital or to celebrate a birthday and yes, provide for a bake sale. My mother's friend had a sour cream pound cake recipe that was wonderful. So I, who had just married in Laramie, WY, (7200 feet altitude), tried making the recipe there. Flatter than a pancake. Then I remember I was at high altitude. Tried it again, precisely cutting the amount of baking powder required. Flatter than a pancake. I tried again. I forgot to cut the baking powder but before I sifted everything together, I remembered I needed to cut the amount, so I took a spoon and dipped a little bit out of what I had dumped in. Came out perfect. Ever after whenever I made it at high altitude, i dipped a bit out and it always worked!
I want to try this! Do you ice yours? My mom made pound cakes for all occasions, always with a cream
cheese icing tinted pale green. No one ever thought to ask, “Why pale green icing?” When I was a little girl I was jealous of all my cousins who had “store bought birthday cakes.” Reflecting back, they should have been jealous of ME and the special pound cakes my mom baked for every one of my birthdays.
TRUE pound cake is gloriously unadorned!! However, I make a ridiculously delicious coconut cake out of a pound cake, sliced into two layers, brushed with coconut simple syrup and thickly iced with coconut cream cheese frosting!!
I’m definitely going to try this. I’ve never seen one with cream cheese, mostly sour cream. I love cream cheese so this one has me interested! Thank you!
I make a pound cake almost every week. Two this week!! I use my late mother-in-law’s recipe. Pound cake is my granddaughter’s favorite cake since she doesn’t like icing. She says it’s “too sweet!”😁🙄 Straight out of the oven pound cake is surely always available in heaven!!
Out of the Huntsville Heritage Cookbook comes a delicious pound cake recipe! Was my husband’s favorite because it calls for 1 2/3 cups of sugar where most recipes, for pound cakes, require 3 cups! When the doctors started screaming about his diet and what he must cut back on, he found this recipe and asked me to start baking this one….simple and still very delicious! For me, however, nothing beats a cream cheese pound cake because of the peel off yummy crust!!! Oh my!!!!! Then there’s a garnish or two to step her up a notch …..such as fresh strawberries with whipped topping or my Aunt Patsy’s famous homemade fudge sauce…..ooooolala!!! Would love to see your granny’s recipe for her family’s favorite! Truth be told……I’ve never met a pound cake I didn’t like…..even on the too dry or hard side you can dip it in your coffee! Sean, you got it spot on…..it IS the American favorite, hands down!
Sean, we may be cousins. My mom, grandma, and aunts made pound cakes for all occasions. Mom’s signature touch was cream
cheese icing tinted pale green. No one ever thought to ask, “Why pale green icing?” When I was a little girl, I was jealous of all my cousins who had “store bought birthday cakes.” Reflecting back, they should have been jealous of ME and the special pound cakes my mom baked for every one of my birthdays. I hope I never told her I would rather have a cake from the Piggly Wiggly. I was forty when
she died and I would give anything to walk into my kitchen on my birthday and find Mom’s Tupperware cake saver with a pound cake covered with pale green cream cheese icing.
All of my adult children can attest to the supremacy of pound cake in our family. Our 9 year old great grand daughter asks my wife for a pound cake for her birthday present. My 72 year old friend from Wisconsin recently had a piece of pound cake fresh and still warm out of the oven for the first time in his life. Two days later he still couldn’t believe he had spent his life not knowing about this “manna from heaven.” Two cheers for pound cake.
Here in the Philly region…when someone says they’re bringing a “Stocks” pound cake to the event, everyone seems to smile & eyes light up as they are known as The Best & so yummy!
I’m finally down south & on another note regarding food…I’m going to have breakfast at “Waffle 🧇House” tomorrow ~ my 1st time… I can’t wait!!! 🥰
You'll love the pecan waffles and also loaded hash browns at Waffle House!
Please tell us what you think about Waffle House!!
Absolutely!!!
Would love to know that recipe….and can’t wait to hear about you WH experience…..hope you find a good one and that you are not disappointed!
I’m sure it will be just great!
just about the only place that serves real bacon - and I don't even want to know what it costs!
Nothing beats real bacon!!!🥓
You gone wet yor whistle MARILYN. Tell em you wants the hash brown. "Scattered Smothered and covered- mebe cubed and chucked too. You them you want it " on da Haus! " good luck wid Dat urn!
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Yep! Bill Stocks
I have never, not once, ever, had, or even seen a pound cake at any gathering, family function, or potluck in Kansas, where I have lived most of my life. This is a sad, sad tale which I will need to remedy at the next church potluck, a week and a half away!
Start something…..a good ol tasty pound cake won’t disappoint!
Rendee, you can't eats just one. You walk in but you crawls out!. Dat pound cake is "Nose Pickin Good!" RicCy told me Dat urn! Sho nuff girl you been deprived!
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Yuuumm!
The original recipe was essentially a cake that was made from a pound of flour, a pound of sugar, a pound of butter, and a pound of eggs. This is what believed where the pound cake received it's name?!.
Warning: a pound of CARBS, too!
God bless Yall.
That’s a great explanation!!
Pound cake is code for “I love you”. It sure is. ❤️
My mom made a lemon pound cake, which makes my mouth water just thinking about it! Yum. I think I have her recipe somewhere. I need to dig it out and make one. But, too bad, I missed Pound Cake Day! You, Sean, were so right about pound cakes being for every celebration. She would bring her pound cake to meetings for the refreshments, take one to anyone just out of the hospital or to celebrate a birthday and yes, provide for a bake sale. My mother's friend had a sour cream pound cake recipe that was wonderful. So I, who had just married in Laramie, WY, (7200 feet altitude), tried making the recipe there. Flatter than a pancake. Then I remember I was at high altitude. Tried it again, precisely cutting the amount of baking powder required. Flatter than a pancake. I tried again. I forgot to cut the baking powder but before I sifted everything together, I remembered I needed to cut the amount, so I took a spoon and dipped a little bit out of what I had dumped in. Came out perfect. Ever after whenever I made it at high altitude, i dipped a bit out and it always worked!
I want that lemon pound cake recipe! My mouth is watering. Maria in Charleston, SC
Luv it, southern pound cakes! Happy ending column, Sean D.
(Long live the American pound cake. And long live LOVE ❤️ ).
Ditto to that Nazem & ❤️
I knew it! We’re cousins!! You wrote about my own life experiences! My childhood all over again!! But…my Granny always had her teeth in, in public!!
This is a ridiculously good recipe, best made in a stoneware Bundt pan: https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/cream-cheese-pound-cake-108969
I want to try this! Do you ice yours? My mom made pound cakes for all occasions, always with a cream
cheese icing tinted pale green. No one ever thought to ask, “Why pale green icing?” When I was a little girl I was jealous of all my cousins who had “store bought birthday cakes.” Reflecting back, they should have been jealous of ME and the special pound cakes my mom baked for every one of my birthdays.
TRUE pound cake is gloriously unadorned!! However, I make a ridiculously delicious coconut cake out of a pound cake, sliced into two layers, brushed with coconut simple syrup and thickly iced with coconut cream cheese frosting!!
I’ve never iced it. The stoneware Bundt pan cooks it just right.
Sounds delicious!!!
I’m definitely going to try this. I’ve never seen one with cream cheese, mostly sour cream. I love cream cheese so this one has me interested! Thank you!
I am known for my grandma Maggie Connell Cobb's South Georgia Poundcake that includes a pound of butter and a touch of Wild Turkey to keep it fresh.
I make a pound cake almost every week. Two this week!! I use my late mother-in-law’s recipe. Pound cake is my granddaughter’s favorite cake since she doesn’t like icing. She says it’s “too sweet!”😁🙄 Straight out of the oven pound cake is surely always available in heaven!!
Out of the Huntsville Heritage Cookbook comes a delicious pound cake recipe! Was my husband’s favorite because it calls for 1 2/3 cups of sugar where most recipes, for pound cakes, require 3 cups! When the doctors started screaming about his diet and what he must cut back on, he found this recipe and asked me to start baking this one….simple and still very delicious! For me, however, nothing beats a cream cheese pound cake because of the peel off yummy crust!!! Oh my!!!!! Then there’s a garnish or two to step her up a notch …..such as fresh strawberries with whipped topping or my Aunt Patsy’s famous homemade fudge sauce…..ooooolala!!! Would love to see your granny’s recipe for her family’s favorite! Truth be told……I’ve never met a pound cake I didn’t like…..even on the too dry or hard side you can dip it in your coffee! Sean, you got it spot on…..it IS the American favorite, hands down!
Yummy recipe Cindy!!!
Sean, we may be cousins. My mom, grandma, and aunts made pound cakes for all occasions. Mom’s signature touch was cream
cheese icing tinted pale green. No one ever thought to ask, “Why pale green icing?” When I was a little girl, I was jealous of all my cousins who had “store bought birthday cakes.” Reflecting back, they should have been jealous of ME and the special pound cakes my mom baked for every one of my birthdays. I hope I never told her I would rather have a cake from the Piggly Wiggly. I was forty when
she died and I would give anything to walk into my kitchen on my birthday and find Mom’s Tupperware cake saver with a pound cake covered with pale green cream cheese icing.
Hail to the pound cake!
An oldie, but a goodie.
😂 “that’s for the funeral!” That’s funny! And sad at the same time.😏
Part of comfort food…….
It’s an old joke.
Yeah, when I first heard it, the baked item was chocolate chip cookies, Grandpa's favorite.
All of my adult children can attest to the supremacy of pound cake in our family. Our 9 year old great grand daughter asks my wife for a pound cake for her birthday present. My 72 year old friend from Wisconsin recently had a piece of pound cake fresh and still warm out of the oven for the first time in his life. Two days later he still couldn’t believe he had spent his life not knowing about this “manna from heaven.” Two cheers for pound cake.