Cold-Oven Pound Cake

Name: Cold-Oven Pound Cake
Yield: Serves 12
Ingredients: 3 cups (12 ounces/340 grams), cake flour; 1/2 teaspoon, baking powder; 1 teaspoon, salt; 1 cup, whole milk; 2 teaspoons, vanilla extract; 20 tablespoons (2½ sticks), unsalted butter, softened; 2 1/2 cups (17½ ounces/496 grams), sugar; 6 large, eggs

Desserts or Baked Goods
Cakes
Lost Recipes

Appears in Cook's Country February/March 2008, Cook's Country TV

A 100-year-old recipe claims that starting in a cold oven yields a pound cake that is especially tall and boasts a crisp crust. Can this unlikely recipe really work?

SERVES 12

TIME 2 hours, plus 2 hours cooling

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