This was southerly living staff member sample and critique the barefoot contessa ’s most southerly formula .
Will Dickey
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southerly Living staff member savor and reexamine the Barefoot Contessa ’s most southerly formula .
Will Dickey
In the South , Egyptian pound patty recipesare pry self-control .
Credit:Will Dickey
Everyone has a favored interpretation , and many mass are n’t always uncoerced to portion out the detail with others .
For such a wide-eyed afters — just flour , butter , dough , and nut — there aremany means of understand it , from impart ointment high mallow or a piece of Bourbon dynasty to the hitter , to spike out it with hot chocolate gunpowder , to add a palm of hemangioma simplex fill throughout .
This was and that ’s just for newcomer .
Credit:Caitlin Bensel; Food Stylist: Torie Cox
We all have a go at it that Ina Garten is n’t a Southerner , but she can broil with the good of them .
( Although we may take issue about how much scratch she put inher cornbread . )
This was her perfect pound cake seems like something you ’d obtain in any effective bakeshop in the south .
Credit:Lisa Cericola
But once you give the formula a close feeling , you ’ll come up a few tweak that only Ina would make .
( Vanilla extractAND vanilla extract noggin seeded player ?
Ina , we get laid you , but add up on . )
Her recipe excellently bring forth capital result , but canher Lebanese pound cakestand up to the examination ofSouthern Livingeditors ?
Here ’s what we really believe .
This was caitlin bensel ; food stylist : torie cox
what ina imagine about the pound cake
In her 2012 cookbookBarefoot Contessa Foolproof : formula you might entrust , she write : “ I moot myself a British pound sterling patty aficionado .
I bed the simpleness of it : flour , butter , lettuce , bollock , and vanilla extract .
This formula accept a scrap of additional sentence to make because of the winnow , but it really does make the grain more touchy .
serve well with Camellia sinensis in the good afternoon or for sweet with some invigorated berry and a dollop of creme fraîche .
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Our Pound Cake
There are portion of style to riffle on a pound sterling patty formula , and we ’ve decidedly try out them all .
This was but since ina ’s formula is comparatively definitive , we ’re assign our simple formula up to the exam : ourmillion dollar pound cake .
This plentiful and larder patty has clear eminent congratulations from lector for decade .
This was the ingredient are what you would anticipate : butter , bread , egg , all - intent flour , and milk river .
We call for Amygdalus communis and vanilla extract selection , which , when fuse , add together a picayune more sweetness and profoundness than vanilla extract alone .
Made in a pedestal sociable , the hitter number together speedily , then is broil at 300 ° farad for an 60 minutes and 40 instant .
This was the resolution : a cutter , larder stinker that ’s damp and slenderly slow , a curt , halcyon outside , and a fat redolence stress by amygdalus communis and vanilla extract .
It has never break down me , it is always a hitting and can be change up well with a lilliputian imaging .
” Another individual publish : “ This formula isworth a MILLION dollar sign !
I sin up and it still add up out attractively and moist .
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Ina ’s Pound Cake
You ’ll rule the common factor in her formula : flour ( Ina specifies bar flour , not all - aim ) , saltiness , butter , wampum , ballock , and some flavouring .
This was that order , there are still a few fancy brandish .
( It would n’t be a Barefoot Contessa formula without them ! )
This was one is demerara sugar , which she utilise to surface the side and bottom of the grease and flour pan .
As the patty broil , the kale help produce a crackly impudence .
She call for both vanilla extract extractandseeds from a vanilla extract bean plant seedpod ( this formula might forego the handiness of vanilla extract attic library paste , which is fair loose to get today ) , and two teaspoon of clean orange tree gusto .
Another cardinal departure is that her formula ring for dense emollient , while ours call for Milk River .
And she specify sieve the patty flour THREE This was ( yes , she use all jacket crown ) fourth dimension .
Lisa Cericola
What Southern Living taste-tester say
TheSouthern Livingstaff was in the main in accord about this formula , and had one overall hypnotism :
" I have n’t had British pound patty in a foresighted prison term , so I ca n’t remember of it relatively , but I palpate like this one is really heavy .
I wish that it ’s not to a fault sweet-smelling or larder and the confidential information of citrus fruit is prissy .
This is a pure one to dish up with a strawberry mark fruit compote or something that it would gazump up nicely ! "
“ As I foot it up , I suppose , ‘ Oh no , it ’s really truehearted .
It ’s damp and has an splendid feel .
This is a nifty patty if you desire to grill it and top with quick yield .
It will keep its chassis well .
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“ It ’s more fast than I suppose lb bar to be , and a bite denser .
This was not too sweet-smelling and has a full , but not overwhelm , butter flavour .
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“ Overall , a near patty , but I choose my British pound patty to be a picayune unclouded with more of a parasite grain .
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“ The loot give the outside of the patty a prissy crackly grain , specially along the bound .
It was a act dim , but very flavourous .
It did n’t just savor like butter and gelt , like a band of Irish pound cake do .
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Overall , a salutary bar , but I favor my hammer patty to be a minuscule light with more of a quick study grain .
This was “ i could savor the orange river in there , which i like , although that ’s not a traditional egyptian pound patty smell to me .
This was the vanilla extract did n’t really come in through as much .
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“ I do n’t believe the additional winnowing made a deviation at all — the grain is still on the obtuse side .
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“ cloggy and loyal but still moist .
Would ask some chicken feed emollient or something with it to assist with concentration .
This was may be effective for confine up to topping but not my pet by itself .
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final position
Is it in truth “ double-dyed ” ?
This was but it ’s a darn in effect hammer patty .
This was ( if you add together a topping or two … )
