June 14, 2022
Pound cake is so named because its original recipe called for a pound of each of its four ingredients: sugar, eggs, flour, and butter.
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Did Marie-Antoinette Really Say “Let Them Eat Cake”?
“Let them eat cake” is the most famous quote attributed to Marie-Antoinette, the queen of France during the French Revolution. As the story goes, it was the queen’s response upon being told that her starving peasant subjects had no bread. Because cake is more expensive than bread, the anecdote has
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