Bristol Cream Sherry Pound Cake

[Caroline923]

In search of recipe for Bristol Cream Sherry Pound Cake

[JeanneCake]

I tried to google "Harvey's Bristol Cream Pound Cake" and most sites just list the ingredients, no method. This seems to be standard, hope it helps:

1 c butter or margarine

2 tsp baking powder

1/8 tsp ground nutmeg

2 c sugar

3/4 c harvey's bristol cream sherry

6 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

1/2 tsp salt

3/4 c pecans; finely chopped

3 c flour

Edited for typos

Edited November 6, 2007 by JeanneCake (log)

[Caroline923]

I tried to google "Harvey's Bristol Cream Pound Cake" and most sites just list the ingredients, no method.  This seems to be standard,  hope it helps:

1 c  butter or margarine

      2 tsp baking powder

    1/8 tsp ground nutmeg

      2 c  sugar

    3/4 c  harvey's bristol cream sherry

      6    eggs

      1 tsp vanilla

    1/2 tsp salt

    3/4 c  pecans; finely chopped

      3 c  flour

Edited for typos

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I assume you are soaking the cake with the cream and not adding it as a liquid??

[JeanneCake]

I have no idea... the method for most pound cake recipes is to cream the fats, combine the dry then alternately add the the dry and the liquids (in this case, the eggs and sherry). Then add the nuts. You might have to experiment with this since none of the results I found from googling the recipe included the method. Hold back a little on the sherry and see how fluid or dry the batter is when you finish mixing it.

I think it if were soaking the cake with the sherry, it might have listed the sherry as 3/4 cup sherry, divided so you'd use some of that 3/4 cup in the recipe and the rest as the soak after it bakes.

[Anna N]

Here's a recipe for an olive oil sherry pound cake by Alice Medrich where the sherry is part of the liquid ingredients. I would imagine that this could be adapted to use Bristol Cream sherry though it might be overly sweet.

[danlepard]

Try this one:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1591172,00.html

It has a pound cake texture and the sherry/cherry combination work well, but you could just leave the cherries out to give you a simple sherry pound cake.

Dan