Pound Cake Fun Facts The internet is full of fabulous facts
about everything from current events to the history basket
weaving. Because of this, as we research for our daily content
on food trucks, food carts and street food, we stumble upon some
items of knowledge that we just did not know. We have decided
when these fun facts pop up, that we would share them with our
readers in our section titled “Did You Know?” For today’s Did
You Know fun facts we will look at the Pound Cake. The Facts:
Pound cake refers to a type of cake traditionally made with a
pound of each of four ingredients: flour, butter, eggs, and
sugar. The traditional recipe makes a cake much larger than most
families can consume, and so the quantity is often changed to
suit the size of the cake that is desired. As long as the ratio
is preserved, the resulting cake will be identical to that using
the traditional recipe. Hence, any cake made with a 1:1:1:1
ratio of flour, butter, eggs, and sugar is also called a pound
cake. - The Pound Cake is a