[Sca-cooks] cakes

[Terry Decker]

I've got the Compact Edition of the OED, copyright 1971, Tenth Printing 
(1975).  So either the entries have been shortened or the information has 
been added in a later revision.

Bear


>I don't know which edition of the OED that Bear used, but this is what the 
>current edition says:
>
> [f. POUND n.1 + CAKE n.]
>
>    A rich cake so called as originally containing a pound (or equal 
> weight) of each of the
> principal ingredients, flour, butter, sugar, fruit, etc.
>
>  1747 H. GLASSE Art of Cookery xv. 138 Pound Cake. Take a Pound of 
> Butter..twelve Eggs..a Pound
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>
> Huette
>