Article: Pound cake adventures with nonfat sour cream. (includes recipes)

People kid my friend Susan Bryan that she's a walking clipping service. No matter what the topic, she reaches into her handbag and pulls out an informative article. But the last time we got together, her "clipping" consisted of a silver of pound cake, and she pronounced herself stumped.

The problem was her mother's recipe for sour cream pound cake. Susan felt she could no longer justify its weighty ingredients. Being an adventurous cook, she had tried substituting nonfat sour cream for the regular sour cream and for three-quarters of the butter. The result was less than ideal: a dense cake with a strange, gummy layer. Would I help her remodel the recipe? She ...

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