Brit Food: Pancakes -- Pound Cakes or Griddle Cakes?? EMWTK

[justcarol67]

Steve: 
> > Eventually the 'Pan Cakes' came out, but instead of 6 flap-jacks,
Jay got 6 Pound Cakes. Pound cake is a dense sweet cake similar to
shortcake that is shaped like a small loaf of bread. 
> 
> Kathy (Potioncat)
> ????
> Maybe in stores. Homemade poundcake is round, and not as dense as
the one the picture appeared. (Using my aunt's homemade cake as my
standard.)  ;-)
> 
> Which reminds me of the time our Irish cousin was visiting for the
summer. She asked if we had any sponge and my Mom told her to look on
the back porch. Puzzled, my cousin went to look, but returned fairly
soon to explain that sponge was a type of cake. She wanted to make a
trifle.
> 
> We went out and bought something...angel food or pound cake...and
she made the trifle. That's a misnomer if ever I heard one and boy,
was it good! 
> 
> Kathy
>

Hi, Potioncat. Are you confusing sponge cake, which is usually round
with a hole in the middle like angel food cake, with pound cake, which
is usually loaf-shaped (at least in my experience and in my cookbooks)?

Sponge cake is very light because it has lots of air pockets (hence
the name). Pound cake is much heavier. (Trifle is made from sponge
cake, not pound cake.) Angel food cake is also light but white instead
of yellow. It's basically egg whites, flour, and powdered sugar
without any butter or margarine.

Carol, imagining Jay Leno's expression when he saw the six pound
cakes, not to mention when he found out how much they cost!

Just curious.