Nigerian Pound Cake

Many think that pound cake got its name because it weighed a pound or cost one pound sterling in Britain, but those are both myths. It comes from the original eighteenth century Northern European recipe that called for a pound of each of the main ingredients— eggs, sugar, flour, and butter. The resulting cake must have been enormous.

Over the years, the quantities have reduced to regular proportions, and pound cake has come to mean any cake recipe that had four equal weights of anyt