Amelia Simmons’s Pound Cake

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