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

potioncat willsonkmom at msn.com
Sat May 26 02:26:59 UTC 2007


 
> 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)?

Hi,
I never saw loaf shaped pound cakes until I saw them in supermakets. My 
aunt's were always round. She made the best cakes! And actually, she 
used a bundt pan, so hers had a hole in the middle. I'm familiar with 
angel food cake as well. 

When my cousin from Ireland asked for sponge, Mom thought she needed to 
cleam up a spill. It wasn't till she explained that she wanted sponge 
cake that we understood. But this was a small town and I'm not sure 
what we found at the store that day. I think we used pound cake. (This 
happened several decades ago....before Star Wars even)

Kathy








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