Fruit Pound Cake

I think Mrs. Bryan called this Fruit Pound Cake because, like pound cake, it was one of the recipes she used for making pyramids of cakes, a subject that I take up in chapter 8 under table centerpieces. Mrs. Bryan’s Fruit Pound Cakes were round, like the ones shown in the 1871 chromolithograph on the opposite page. This pyramid consists of 3 separate cakes of graduating sizes ornamented with icing and paste sugar decorations.<