George Pyne’s Bourbon Pound Cake

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6 to 8

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Southern Cakes

By Nancie McDermott

Published 2007

  • About

Friends of the Eno River, in Durham County, North Carolina, still miss George Pyne, a passionate advocate for returning the river to its natural splendor. Not only did he devote time and energy to protecting the river, he also put his signature bourbon-kissed pound cake out there on the front lines, energizing his fellow Eno-philes at potlucks, fund-raisers, and the annual feast at which the latest Eno calendar was unveiled. His son Milo Pyne shared this re