{"id":19625,"date":"2020-06-06T13:21:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T20:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=19625"},"modified":"2020-06-06T13:23:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T20:23:53","slug":"basic-pound-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/basic-pound-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic Pound Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was named thusly because early recipes called for a pound each of flour, butter, sugar and eggs.&nbsp; This recipe is only modified slightly.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 oz cake flour &#8211; 1 level cup (AP flour will work &#8211; a bit more than 1 cup)<\/li>\n<li>4 oz butter &#8211; about 1 stick<\/li>\n<li>4 oz sugar &#8211; about 1\/2 C<\/li>\n<li>4 oz eggs &#8211; about&nbsp; 2 large eggs<\/li>\n<li>scant salt and 1\/2 tsp vanilla<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>When getting the flour, unless you are measuring it in ounces, use a spoon to put the flour into your dry measuring cup.&nbsp; Fill it just over the top.<\/li>\n<li>Cream together sugar and butter<\/li>\n<li>Add eggs 1 at a time, and beat until incorporated<\/li>\n<li>Add the salt and vanilla<\/li>\n<li>Add 1\/2 of the flour and mix, but do not overmix<\/li>\n<li>Add the rest of the flour and mix to incorporate<\/li>\n<li>Bake for 60 minutes @ 350\u00ba<\/li>\n<li>Knife test the batter.&nbsp; If it comes out clean, you&#8217;re done,<br \/>\notherwise, cook for another 10 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Cool at least 20 minutes before turning out<\/li>\n<li>Cool completely on a rack before serving<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was named thusly because early recipes called for a pound each of flour, butter, sugar and eggs.&nbsp; This recipe is only modified slightly. 4 oz cake flour &#8211; 1 level cup (AP flour will work &#8211; a bit more than 1 cup) 4 oz butter &#8211; about 1 stick 4 oz sugar &#8211; about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/basic-pound-cake\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Basic Pound Cake&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grandpas-private-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19628,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19625\/revisions\/19628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}