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Pound cake always gives me a taste of nostalgia. Almost every Sunday at my childhood church, the church mothers brought their best dishes for us to enjoy after service and pound cake was always on the menu. This old fashioned, dense, moist, buttery cake gives me a taste of my childhood in Arkansas.
One of the church mothers, Vivian Lewis, always made a pound cake. She and my grandmother, Bennie Gragg, would go back and forth about the best way to cut the cake. Then they’d laugh and laugh. They found joy around this old fashioned dessert and bonded over their love for food.
During a recent trip home to Arkansas, I visited my sister’s house who has all my grandmother’s cookbooks, and to my amazement, I found a handwritten copy of Mrs. Vivian’s pound cake recipe. I was overjoyed and couldn’t wait to make her amazing dessert. I was eager to taste a piece of my childhood.
I returned home and immediately made this simple pound cake. This dessert recipe gave me an opportunity to reminisce about the amazing women who fed us after church and this was great for my emotional wellness!
What foods from your childhood do you long to have again?
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