Mary Ellen Foley
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8 appearances
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1 series
first heard Dec 2011
last heard Dec 2011
Mary Ellen Foley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm a loyal listener of More or Less, so I heard them ask for recipes that had some mathematical interest, and I immediately thought of pound cake, which everybody in America knows about.
It's something like a Madeira cake.
Very, very common, but probably most people haven't thought about how it got the name.
Traditionally, it was made with one pound each of flour, butter, sugar, and eggs.
So you get this beautiful ratio of one to one to one to one.
And if you really use a pound of flour and a pound of sugar and so on, then you would get an enormous cake or several small cakes.
So really people don't make it with the full pound, but it's the ratio that's important.
So half a pound to a half a pound, et cetera, as long as the weights are the same.
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