[Sca-cooks] cake docs

[KarenO]

> >     I'm working on a couple {pound} cake recipes, looking for
documentation,<<
>
> If you find any, let us know.  From what I've been able to see, pound cake
(a pound of this, a pound of that) is post period.  I had made one and was
challenged to provide documentation by HG Cariadoc (natch!).  All I could
find was from well out of our time.  <

> Alys Katharine

    There is one reference in the Martha Washington book  -- for curran
cake.  waiting on a cookbook from colonial williamsburg {hopefully with
original recipes}  I'm gonna play with the recipes from digby  -- these cake
recipes didn't just  "pop" up,  so i'm wondering if a cook/baker somewhere
didn't "forget"  the barm yeast and amazed themself with the results.  I
hadn't thought to take "pound" cake literally,  just to find out more about
the dense cakes we now call pound cakes.

Caointiarn