pound cake

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   rich loaf cake made of a pound each of butter and sugar and flour

   Broadercakeloaf

Questions about pound cake

What does pound cake mean?

pound cake means "rich loaf cake made of a pound each of butter and sugar and flour".

Is pound cake a common word?

pound cake is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.