The History Of Pound Cake & The Simple Recipe It Was Named After

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The History Of Pound Cake & The Simple Recipe It Was Named After By Persy House Sept. 14, 2025 5:39 pm EST

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While new recipes spring up every day, especially on the internet, some recipes are so tried and true that they're still floating around hundreds of years later. This goes especially for simple recipes with few ingredients ; when something is easy to make and doesn't require a lot of materials, it's spread around easily, meaning there's much more of a chance of someone recording it so it remains culturally known and relevant. This is the case for pound cake, a baked good that's been around since the 1700s and never truly gone out of fashion.

The pound cake is thought to have originated in Britain sometime in the early 1700s,