Shortcut Vanilla Pound Cake

While this is a shortcut recipe because it uses pound cake mix as the base and is made in the bread machine, it is by no means lacking in texture or flavor. It has the tight, moist crumb that you envy in commercial pound cakes. Since one package of mix makes a loaf only three inches high, I recommend one and a half packages for a taller loaf. You will have to set the Bake Only cycle for some extra time; this dense loaf takes a total of 149 minutes to bake. (Before modern ovens, pound cakes