Name: Common Pound Cake
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: currants ½ lb.; butter ½ lb.; Flour 1 lb.; baking powder 2 teaspoonfuls; fine moist sugar ½ lb.; milk ½ pint; eggs 3; half a grated nutmeg.

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 30

Appears in

Good Things in England

By Florence White

Published 1932

About

Miss Anstey says: ‘This was, I think, in my grandmother’s receipt book, and was modernized by my mother. The original “receipt” had, I believe, volatile salts instead of baking powder’ (see Whip Sillabubs).

For a commoner one you may double the quantity of flour and baking powder, and add more milk.