[Sca-cooks] cakes

[Terry Decker]

The Oxford English Dictionary lists uses of a word or phrase.  Does the 
recipe specifically use the term pound cake?  If so, write the OED staff and 
let them know.  They'll probably add it to the usage list in the next 
edition.

Bear


>    This just sounded wrong, so I pulled out one of my 18th century
> cookbooks.  Just the first one I grabbed, which happened to be Hannah
> Glasse, THE ART OF COOKERY MADE PLAIN AND EASY.  This book, on page 309, 
> has
> a receipt for pound cake.  Most of the ingredients are in the quantity of 
> a
> pound.  This is the revised version of 1796 Though the forward says that
> only the soap and beer receipts were added to the previous 1745 edition. 
> I
> have no idea when pound cakes first appear, and would not be surprised if
> they are not period to the SCA, but they do predate Thackery and 1841.
>
> Ranald de Balinhard