If there is one recipe to save forever, this is the one. These days everyone is claiming their recipe is worth a million dollars (we've got a few too), but this is the original pound cake that started ...

Have you ever wondered what sets pound cake apart from any other? The answer actually lies within the name itself. The original recipe was made using one pound of each of the primary ingredients — ...

A British creation of the early 1700s, pound cake obtained its name from the original ingredient list: a pound each of sugar, eggs, flour, and, of course, butter. (In a time when most people were ...

The secret here is that there is no secret: It’s the classic “pound” cake with equal weights of butter, sugar, eggs and flour. Back in the day of easy grocery runs and well-stocked kitchens, I tested ...