Here's How Pound Cake Got Its Name - Daily Meal

Before trying out a traditional pound cake recipe, you might be intrigued to find out where the name originated. According to POPSUGAR., pound cake was born in Europe in the 1700s and surprisingly contained one pound each of butter, flour, sugar, and eggs.

While a four-pound cake isn't the norm nowadays thanks to reduced recipe sizes, baking powder, and measuring cups, the recipe was popular enough to make its way to America in 1796 through Amelia Simmon's in her cookbook titled "The First American Cookbook." Smithsonian Magazine considers the 47-page cookbook to be one of the first ways Americans inadvertently set themselves apart from Britain. Through abundant ingredient suggestions and an underlying cultivation of American home life, Simmons was able to indirectly showcase how America slowly became a separate nation.

In the Project Gutenburg ebook of "American Cookery," among the many cake recipes Simmons provides, the first recorded American pound cake recipe contains not only rose water, as opposed to vanilla extract but "spices to your taste" and very little instruction regarding cook time apart from 15 minutes in a "slow oven." In the "Oxford Companion to Food" author Alan Davidson also notes pound cake recipes from other countries which emerged in the 19th century: the German sand torte and the French quatre quart (per Food Timeline). The popularity of pound cake in America continued through the years and hit another major milestone in the mid-1800s with the inclusion of one special ingredient.

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