The cake she’s referring to is Aunt Gussie’s Pound Cake — a buttery, lemon-vanilla loaf baked without preheating the oven. It’s a technique many younger bakers are encountering for the first time, but ...

This Vanilla Buttermilk Poundcake is a rich, moist, old-fashioned dessert with a perfectly dense crumb and slight tang from the buttermilk. It’s golden on the outside, soft on the inside, and loaded ...