Fred's Fun Fact: Cake!

Where did pound cake get its name? Find out!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Fread Show is on Fread's Fun.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Fact Fred's Fun Learn so much.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Guys, do you know why pound by? What pound? Do
you know what pound?

Speaker 3 (00:19):
I did?

Speaker 4 (00:20):
My brain just I just like I don't know. It's
short circuited. Do you know why pound cake is called
pound cake? I do not, do you because it adds
pounds now that waste. It's delicious but worth it. Yeah,
pound cake. Minute on your lips, years on your hips,
Yes right, pound cake. I got southern and all of

(00:40):
a sudden, I don't know why. I don't know what happened. However,
pound cake is known as pound cake because it's equal butter, eggs, sugar, flour,
one pound of each.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
That's the recipe. That's the original recipe. It works. I guess.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
It's a simple recipe, but it was easy to remember
during a time in the seventeen hundreds when not everybody could.
Oh so that's that's why it's called pound cake. Because
if you, I guess, if you put a pound of
each of those things in a bowl, mix it up
and bake it, then that you get a pound cake.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yell cake.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
I got a little pound cake, mom me, just a
little one. I got to oh, Yeah, my doctor gave
me the you see what I did that icy?

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
I heard.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
She's actually feeling her butt right now, she's feeling her
bbyl and I've seen a video about this and this
is not allowed to Sound'm uncomfortable.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
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