Amelia Simmons’s Pound Cake

1796

Preparation info
  • Yield: One 10 inch Loaf,

    15 to 20

    Servings.
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Christmas Cook: Three Centuries of American Yuletide Sweets

By William Woys Weaver

Published 1990

  • About

In her original recipe, Amelia Simmons suggested baking the cake in a “slow oven 15 minutes.” We can deduce from this that she was baking the batter in small tins. Likewise, a correspondent to The Household many years later remarked about her pound cake recipe: “Bake in tin hearts and rounds or add currants and bake in a loaf.”8 Mrs. Bliss called pound cake baked in heart-shaped tins