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Article: Pound cake a well-traveled favorite
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- December 22, 2002
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Pound cake a well-traveled favorite
By BEV BENNETT
Sunday, December 22, 2002
Pound cake is the white sofa of the dessert world: sophisticated,
classic and easy to accessorize. And this may be the year for pound
cake, just as it is for understated white and neutral home
furnishings. If you've avoided pound cakes, preferring a "knock-'em-
dead'" chocolate extravaganza, you've been missing out on the
luscious flavor and texture that an excessive and essential amount of
butter, sugar and eggs can produce.
A well-made pound cake has a texture as fine as $200 bed sheets
and a flavor as delicate and rich as silk brocade. But even if you
couldn't care less about elegance, you'll be sold on how ...