{"id":41082,"date":"2014-03-17T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.halegroves.com\/blog\/recipe\/orange-pound-cake\/"},"modified":"2022-02-11T12:02:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T12:02:41","slug":"orange-pound-cake","status":"publish","type":"cuisine-recipe","link":"https:\/\/www.halegroves.com\/blog\/recipe\/orange-pound-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange Pound Cake Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">INGREDIENTS<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">1 pound butter<br \/>  1 pound powdered sugar<br \/>  2 tablespoon grated orange rind<br \/>  6 large eggs<br \/>  3 &frac12; cups sifted all purpose flour<br \/>  &frac12; teaspoon mace<br \/>  &frac14; teaspoon salt<br \/>  &frac14; cup apricot jam, strained<br \/>  2 tablespoon shredded orange peel<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">PREPARATION<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Preheat oven to 350 degrees.&nbsp; Cream butter until light and fluffy.&nbsp; Gradually add sifted sugar and rind.&nbsp; Cream thoroughly.&nbsp; Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition.&nbsp; Sift the flour before measuring, and then combine the dry ingredients.&nbsp; Sift.&nbsp; Gradually add sifted dry ingredients to butter mixture.&nbsp; Add <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.halegroves.com\/navel-oranges\/c\/ft_1001_7\/\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">orange juice<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"> and combine thoroughly.&nbsp; Turn into buttered and floured 10-inch tube pan.&nbsp; Bake at 350 degrees for 50 to 60 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean and cake is golden brown.&nbsp; Cool for 5 minutes.&nbsp; Turn into wire rack and cool thoroughly.&nbsp; Brush with jam and top with orange peel.&nbsp; If you try to make a pound cake with margarine or shortening you will end up with a tasteless mess.&nbsp; Butter is the major taste in a pound cake; even if it weren&rsquo;t, butter and margarine have different properties in baking, and this recipe is adjusted for butter.&nbsp; Don&rsquo;t make this cake if you don&rsquo;t have an electric mixer or very strong wrists.&nbsp; It takes approximately a half an hour beating butter and such when making this cake.&nbsp; Also, this cake is easier to handle if you have a tube pan that comes apart into two pieces.&nbsp; <br \/>  Time:&nbsp; 30-40 minutes preparation, 1 hour baking.<br \/>  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[44],"cuisine-recipe-category":[55],"cuisine-recipe-course":[],"cuisine-recipe-cuisine":[],"class_list":["post-41082","cuisine-recipe","type-cuisine-recipe","status-publish","hentry","tag-navel-oranges","cuisine-recipe-category-desserts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog2.halegroves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cuisine-recipe\/41082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog2.halegroves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cuisine-recipe"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog2.halegroves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cuisine-recipe"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog2.halegroves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog2.halegroves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog2.halegroves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog2.halegroves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41082"},{"taxonomy":"cuisine-recipe-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog2.halegroves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cuisine-recipe-category?post=41082"},{"taxonomy":"cuisine-recipe-course","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog2.halegroves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cuisine-recipe-course?post=41082"},{"taxonomy":"cuisine-recipe-cuisine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog2.halegroves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cuisine-recipe-cuisine?post=41082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}