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    pound cake

    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
    Related topics: Food, dish
    ˈpound cake noun [countable]  DFFa heavy cake made from flour, sugar, and butter 磅蛋糕，重糖重黄油蛋糕
    Examples from the Corpus
    pound cake• She made potato salad and deviled eggs and tea and I brought green beans and a pound cake.• She had been in the midst of baking a pound cake and it had come out too heavy.• I got a pound cake from Patience mailed in September.• He puts butter on already buttery things like croissants and pound cake.• His plate held the last few crumbs of a generous slice of pound cake.• After ripening, use as a topping for pudding, pound cake or ice cream.    Origin pound cake (1700-1800) Because it was made of a pound of each of the things in it
    ˈpound cake nounChineseSyllable
    heavy and made a sugar, cake flour, Corpus from butter


    pound cake
    ˈpound cake noun [countable]
     Date: 1700-1800
     Origin: Because it was made of a pound of each of the things in it
    a heavy cake made from flour, sugar, and butter


    pound cakeBrE /ˈpaʊnd keɪk/ 🔊NAmE /ˈpaʊnd keɪk/ 🔊 (NAmE) (BrE Maˈdeira cake) noun [countable, uncountable] a plain yellow cake made with eggs, fat, flour and sugar 磅饼