[Sca-cooks] Not lost my touch, OOP

[Ron Carnegie]

At 12:11 AM 9/2/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Yes, that's why it is pound cake in English- a pound each of flour,
>sugar, eggs, and butter...the recipe from my grandmother's book calls
>for just that and a pinch of, I think, mace...  (I didn't have mace when
>I made it, don't remember what I used.) This actually makes 2 standard
>loaf cakes. Your recipe will be lighter than that, mine didn't separate
>the eggs. I think it just creamed butter and sugar, added flour and eggs
>alternately, and baked...  very rich. Serve in very thin slices, to
>people who think they don't like poundcake! When I last made it, I took
>it for coffee after church. Nice old lady tasted it, her eyes bugged
>out... she hadn't had this since her own mother died...  I told her I
>cooked it from a book her mother could have used...  And that book was
>old enough that I think it just said medium heat until done... Orange?
>That's an idea... I may play with that. Now that it is cooling off, I'm
>thinking of baking. Haven't for years... same old refrain, no one to eat
>it! LOL!

    The usual replacement for mace is nutmeg.

Ranald,
Ron Carnegie
r.carnegie at verizon.net
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