When pound cake became a thing in the mid 1700s, the recipe was as simple and dense as the name implies: one pound each of butter, eggs, sugar, and flour. Butter is the key ingredient for good pound ...

Baking lies at the heart of Southern cooking, where every treat tastes like it was made with love. Staple pantry ingredients like butter and buttermilk lend their rich flavors to beloved recipes like ...

This is the best Salted Caramel Kentucky Butter Cake recipe! It's a moist sour cream pound cake infused with a rich, butter-rum caramel syrup and topped with a salted caramel glaze and flaky sea salt!

Food history buffs say pound cakes, as written recipes, date back to the early 1700s. The name "pound cake" simply described the recipe: a pound each of butter, sugar, eggs and flour. Such a cake ...

NEW YORK — Pound cake is so called because it is traditionally made with a pound each of flour, sugar, butter and eggs. Take, for instance, this mid-18th-century recipe: “Take a Pound of Butter, beat ...

This rustic cornmeal pound cake with its simple honey-butter glaze is not your average cake; it has a flavor profile all its own, with a faint reminder of the tender and moist cornbread I remember ...

In Saving Southern Recipes, Southern Kitchen’s Kate Williams explores the deep heritage of Southern cooking through the lens of passed-down, old family recipes. I can't even keep track of the number ...

A pound of butter, a pound of sugar, a pound of flour and a pound of eggs — that’s the easy-to-remember recipe for an 18th-century pound cake, large enough to feed a family for days. Most of us don’t ...