Misleading cake name

[reynardo]

Name of the cake - "Half Pound Cake"

Expected weight: 250g (Half a pound, or 8 ounces)

Actual weight after cooking: 2800g

Weight after 2 months in the cupboard: 3200g

Explanation:

The cake is named by the amount of Butter in it - 250g. In reality, there's 1375 g of fruit, and lots of other ingredients.

And the increase after its stay in the cupboard?

Well, dose a cake with a cup of brandy every week and it will put on weight :-)

(Cake dimensions: 20 cm diameter, 8cm high. )

Comments

[mr-figgy.livejournal.com]

What's that other misleading name? Was it figgy pudding, or sugar plums?

[moxie_man]

I had a feeling it was a "fruit cake". But The other explanation I expected was that back to when this particular recipe was first invented, the ingredients cost a half pound British Sterling. :)

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Good thought! I do somewhere still have the recipie for Beef Stock that starts with 3d. worth of beef bones. Mind you, my copy of the recipie from 1926 has the same amount - 3d. - as the recipie in the 1962 version. You'd think the cost of beef bones would have changed a little...