pound cake

a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.

Origin of pound cake

First recorded in 1740–50

If there is anything I love better than father and mother, brother and sister, it's pound-cake.

St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. |Various
The girls in Hayesboro are the sustaining kind of friends, like pound-cake, sweetened and beautifully frosted.

Over Paradise Ridge |Maria Thompson Daviess
The dessert was egg-nogg, and Confederate pound-cake made from bolted cornmeal.

Old Times in Dixie Land |Caroline E. Merrick
Meal enough to make the batter of the consistency of pound-cake batter.

Housekeeping in Old Virginia |Marion Cabell Tyree

Her sisters to tea meant hot biscuits and plum sauce and pie and pound-cake and tea.

Pembroke |Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

pound cake

a rich fruit cake originally made with a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour