Why does this pound cake weigh 15 ounces and not a pound?
@PatZAnthony (14749)
Charlotte, North Carolina
June 20, 2017 3:41pm CST
A pound cake should weigh a pound if it is advertised as a pound cake, shouldn't it?
Maybe not! The original pound cake was named that because it contained one pound of each ingredient. Imagine the size of the cake pan that held that!
An article shared on Wikipedia explain the details. Many here may already be well aware that a pound cake does not have to weight a pound.
Do you make pound cakes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_cake,
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@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
20 Jun 17
First thing I thought of tho is that it should weigh a pound..why are they doing it at 15 ozs? Because most people will think they are getting one pound, though that is not why it is called pound cake lol
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@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
23 Jun 17
@PatZAnthony 
Either way, I love pound cake and would love a bit now.
Either way, I love pound cake and would love a bit now.1 person likes this
@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
23 Jun 17
Yes @TiarasOceanView
So, it can seem to some that this is not right, but it actually is just as it should be.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
20 Jun 17
Yes I do and I have never weighted one LOL! A pound isn't what it used to be!
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
20 Jun 17
Nothing is @AbbyGreenhill
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
20 Jun 17
@PatZAnthony that's life!.... Unfortunately.
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@allknowing (136446)
• India
21 Jun 17
Silly reason I say. Not just this you must see the reasons for so many other names
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
23 Jun 17
Yes, there are silly reasons that many things have the names they have @allknowing
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
20 Jun 17
No I don't make them I buy them, Sarah Lee makes a very good one.
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
23 Jun 17
Many people do buy pound cakes rather than make their own @BelleStarr
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
23 Jun 17
That is the way it is with many people these days @TheHorse
@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
23 Jun 17
These would not be too hard to make @CRK109
Ours don't have animal products or wheat! Try doing that and making it delicious 
@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
21 Jun 17
So, a name can be misleading as that pound cake doesn't weigh a pound.
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
23 Jun 17
Guessing many things that have labels are not what they seem @1hopefulman
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
23 Jun 17
It seems many people do just buy these not @Nawsheen
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@LadyDuck (471508)
• Switzerland
21 Jun 17
It's weird, your link brought me on a "non existing" page on Wikipedia, but I searched and with the same link I get the right page. It's weird. We call the cake "quattro quarti" ("quatre-quarts" in French) it means four quarters. Because no matter the weight of the cake, you need the same quantity of the 4 ingredients you use.
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
23 Jun 17
That is correct @LadyDuck
No clue why some links don't work here, but I have had this happen too.
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@bluesa (15022)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
22 Jun 17
@PatZAnthony , ah ha...I was one of those who thought a pound cake was supposed to weigh a pound. Meantime it was one pound of each ingredient, yikes!
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
23 Jun 17
Yeah, we would not have a cake pan large enough to bake that! Maybe they were dividing the batter into separate pans @bluesa
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@bluesa (15022)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
23 Jun 17
@PatZAnthony that might just be the case
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@moffittjc (121586)
• Gainesville, Florida
22 Jun 17
Since that pound cake only weighs 15 ounces, does that make it a low-fat pound cake? haha
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
23 Jun 17
No, but might have less servings in each cake @moffittjc
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@moffittjc (121586)
• Gainesville, Florida
25 Jun 17
@PatZAnthony I probably shouldn't admit this, but when I buy pound cake, I only get one serving out of it...
@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
23 Jun 17
We would not have thought about it if someone had not questioned it while we were in a store @DianneN
@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
23 Jun 17
It is just a silly bit of trivia, isn't it @just4him
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
23 Jun 17
It seems many do enjoy eating these @salonga
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@Hate2Iron (15727)
• Canada
20 Jun 17
I would have thought that it should weigh a pound... I would love to know how they talk their way out of that one lol!
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
23 Jun 17
The details are in the article @Hate2Iron
@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
23 Jun 17
Many of us don't bake these days @Juliaacv
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@hostessman (11871)
• Tucson, Arizona
20 Jun 17
i don't but my wife does a lot of baking
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
23 Jun 17
Many who bake already know the story of the pound cake @hostessman so she probably could tell you the same information shared here.
@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
23 Jun 17
It could confuse some @pannyme
We thought it was just an interesting bit of information.
