a pound cake if there was a few less eggs
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Exactly 1/2 quart
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Depends on how you cut it. ~The Geez
If you use a lb of butter, flour, eggs and sugar, it will come out weighing just under 4 pounds. ("Just under", because some of the moisture from the butter and eggs will exaporate during cooking).
1 pound
1 2/8 pounds of eggs make a pound of egg whites. this is just a calculated estimate (meaning there is a 85% chance that it is right.)
Pound cake 1/2 pound butter(softened) 1/2 pound (1 1/4 cup) sugar 1/4 tsp salt 1/2 pound (1 3/4 cups) sifted flour 1/2 pound (4 xl or 5 med) eggs (1 lb is 9 large eggs) 1 tablespoon baking powder 1 tsp vanilla grease a loaf pan or small cake pan with high sides. preheat oven to 350F (180C) cream butter and sugar until fluffy sift dry ingredients together beat eggs into butter sugar mix add vanilla and stir in dry ingredients slowly until incorporated, do not over work it. (if too dry add milk a tablespoon at a time to make a batter.) pour batter into loaf pan, bake 45 minutes, test with toothpick.
Pound cake was traditionally made with a pound of flour, a pound of sugar, a pound of butter, and a pound of eggs. The cake recipe has been changed over the years, but the name has remained the same.
3 3/4 cups flour = 1 pound
It can, but that is not the origin of the name. A pund cake was originally called that bexause it involved a pound (one pound butter, one pound flour, one pound sugar, ect.) of each of the ingredients.