Making the First Published Pound Cake Recipe from 1747 | Down the Baking Rabbit Hole Series

[@alnwick00]

Thanks for all your effort.

[@windycitybaker]

You are very welcome. I had a great time trying this cake!

[@123ALERA]

Your face when you took the bite 😂 made my day. Thanks for this entertaining video

[@windycitybaker]

Lol. I forgot how much salt I added and was genuinely surprised. I'm glad it was entertaining!

[@pamelajohnson9810]

I just found your channel I loves it do you have vintage recipes.thanks for showing.

[@beverlypeterson291]

So cool that you did this! I’ve always wondered what cakes tasted like back then! It’s actually amazing that pound cakes survived given everything you just had to do & the saltiness of it! Thank you for this incredible video of the history of our beloved pound cake!!

[@jacquespoulemer3577]

Hello Friends, back in the 1970s I tried one of these old recipes but from the 19th century not the 18th. The recipe was pretty much the same in every respect, including the final dense and outside burned result. to avoid a dome I later learned to push the raw dough from the center to the edges, it helps a bit to keep it flat. also some baking pans (like for bread dough, pan de mie have a tight fiting lid) to save it I'd make a trifle or a bread pudding out of the final cake. (it will ameliorate but not solve the salt problem...) Enjoyed the show, thanks for this trip down the what I'll never make again memory lane. Jim Mexico

[@labcat647]

This is fun to watch.

[@windycitybaker]

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@MaxMRasmussen]

Great video. Most likely they would have used unsalted fresh butter for that cake. There is no reason to make a savory cake instead of a regular bread. That would be a vaste of some very expensive sugar back then. It is probably a thing than any housewife would have known, so was not in the recipe.

[@beverlypeterson291]

Very good point! I hadn’t considered that!

[@cindys2995]

When I first started selling pound cakes, I'd sometimes get cakes that had gummy streaks in the middle. I was always shocked because It would look evenly baked, be springy to the touch, and the toothpick was clean. I researched and found out it was due to over creaming the fat or eggs. Never happened again.....

[@windycitybaker]

You are absolutely right. Over-mixing eggs definitely changes the texture of cake and it doesn't take that long to go from a nice texture to dense/gummy.

[@05twister]

Working out that batter should be a new exercise program! Great video, learn a lot! 🙂

[@windycitybaker]

It was definitely an arm workout! I was exhausted after working that batter for 1 hour!

[@laurazeller2014]

That was fun!

[@windycitybaker]

It was a lot of fun! I'm looking forward to doing this for other desserts!

[@MMSCOTT-mx8dm]

Your face says it all!🤣🤣🤣 Wow and you said it was salty too!!!!!

[@windycitybaker]

I definitely forgot how salty it was supposed to be so I was really surprised when I bit into it lol

[@kaybrown8756]

Sarah, I really like the history lesson. However, you should talk to someone that who would have baked on a wood burning stove. I didn't cook on one but mother and my grandma did. And they made the best cake. I would love for you to try baking the cake again after you talk to someone that cooked on a wood burning stove.

[@michaelbruns449]

Wow, near 300 year old pound cake, but without vanilla extract flavoring its always gona be taste undermined.

[@kaybrown8756]

Hi, just a little FY the butter would have been fresh butter NO salt. When I was very young my grandma would have used fresh butter .

[@白尾-t7j]

The structure on the top of the cake was underbaked, so it looked dense.(Moisture was still in it)

[@windycitybaker]

I'm super late to this comment, but the cake had been fully baked through. It was just still warm when I turned it out and the weight from the rest of the cake compressed the dome. The toothpick came out completely clean when I took it out of the oven. It was just my impatience and anxiety about the cake not being able to come out of the pan that caused it look dense.

[@denisemoody2982]

Look like cornbread😂😂😂😂😂

[@windycitybaker]

You are absolutely right!