pound cake

noun

a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.

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Origin of pound cake

First recorded in 1740–50

Words nearby pound cake

poultry, poultryman, pounce, pouncet box, pound, pound cake, pound cost averaging, pound key, pound net, pound of flesh, pound out

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Example sentences from the Web for pound cake

If there is anything I love better than father and mother, brother and sister, it's pound-cake.
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10.|Various
The girls in Hayesboro are the sustaining kind of friends, like pound-cake, sweetened and beautifully frosted.
Over Paradise Ridge|Maria Thompson Daviess
The dessert was egg-nogg, and Confederate pound-cake made from bolted cornmeal.
Old Times in Dixie Land|Caroline E. Merrick
Meal enough to make the batter of the consistency of pound-cake batter.
Housekeeping in Old Virginia|Marion Cabell Tyree

Her sisters to tea meant hot biscuits and plum sauce and pie and pound-cake and tea.
Pembroke|Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

British Dictionary definitions for pound cake

pound cake

noun

a rich fruit cake originally made with a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour

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