Talk:Pound cake
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Questioning the relation of a US pound cake to a British Fruit Cake. An American pound cake does not ordinarily contain fruit. The cake described in the article as an American Pound is a Fruit Cake. American pound cake, especially a Southern American pound cake is quite simply, flour, butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla extract with some changes for taste such as milk, sour cream, other flavorings such as lemon, rum or chocolate.
Interestingly enough, the original recipe listed in the first version in history is closer to what most Americans consider Pound Cake. Perhaps this article should be titled British Pound Cake and a new article should be started titled American Pound Cake since the two are really different. We would just never put fruit in a pound cake... makes it something totally different.
A British Madeira Cake does not contain any fruit, just some lemon zest.
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I agree that this entry should be changed because it says that Americans call the Madeira cake a pound cake when, as previously stated, it would be called a fruit cake. Some research to see where the author got this informaiton is necessary to make changes. SailorAlphaCentauri 20:00, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Madeira cake reference is definitely wrong if this type of cake contains fruit. I've removed it (labelled it as a minor edit in error).Mutt Lunker 23:35, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Pan type
Would one consider the type of pan used to bake a Pound cake, a Bundt?
- If we are talking about American pound cake, that would not necessarily be the case. Almost all of the pound cakes I've ever made, or purchased, were made in bread pans. SailorAlphaCentauri 16:47, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Subjective
This article needs to be cleaned up and sourced. There are subjective comments like "not ... to American tastes" that need to be removed, and evidence of Americans calling the Madeira cake a pound cake is also needed. SailorAlphaCentauri 16:51, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Pound each
The present text says that this is American (and so not British), and implies that it is Southern (not Northern). I doubt both restrictions; any recipe so simple is apt to be very old indeed. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 16:26, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
