Notes about Recipes in this book

• Grandma's molasses pound cake

  • ashallen on October 06, 2020

    Great cake!! I picked this recipe to use up the last of some homemade candied citron and was expecting a typical spice cake but it has a really nice dark, spicy flavor brightened by the diced raisins and citron. I'll look forward to trying it with candied orange peel. Texture was moist without being dense. I used King Arthur's unbleached cake flour and baked the cake in a 10-inch angel food cake pan instead of the loaf pan called for in the recipe. Removed from oven once center reached 205F after 40-45 minutes. King Arthur's recipe is a lightly modified version of a recipe in the 1965 edition of The Fannie Farmer Cookbook. The Fannie Farmer version calls for a bit more milk and molasses (2/3 cup each), a bit more sugar (3/4 cup vs 1/2) and 2 vs 3 eggs. I used the Fannie Farmer ingredient amounts and the King Arthur baking instructions which are more detailed/helpful than those in Fannie Farmer. Keeps well.