Lemon Pound Cake
biscottisue · nigella.com · Serves: 0
Against 462 pound cake recipes
Less butter than 96% of recipes and less egg than 97%.
How it compares
Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less butter than 96% of recipes: 54% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
- Less egg than 97% of recipes: 45% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
- More sugar than 93% of recipes: 179% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
- No salt at all, where 75% of recipes use some (most of those 0.5 to 1.5% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (12)
- 1 lemon juicen/a
- 2 lemon peel (grated)n/a
- 125 millilitres yoghurt (or milk)≈ 129 g
- lemon syrupn/a
- 2 lemons (juice & rind)n/a
- 335 grams flour335 g
- 1 teaspoon baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- 180 grams butter180 g
- 495 grams caster sugar495 g
- 3 eggs≈ 150 g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla essence≈ 8 g
- 125 millilitres sugar≈ 106 g
flour 335 gbatter 1408 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 462 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Butter54% · 3rd percentile · median 91%
- Sugar179% · 93rd percentile · median 120%
- Egg45% · 3rd percentile · median 80%
- Dairy39% · 47th percentile · median 46%
- Leavening1.4% · 47th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0% · 12th percentile · median 0.7%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 40 minutes
- median 60 minutes
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