A Winning Recipe: Poundcake Company tasting success.

From: Smithfield Herald (Smithfield, NC) | Date: February 13, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Sarah McNeil

Feb. 13--BENSON -- Eggs, butter, sugar and flour. Those are the only ingredients needed to whip up a pound cake. Still, it took Jan Matthews-Hodges years to turn those four ingredients into a pound cake that won top honors at the State Fair. Now, the precise recipe is the basis for her business, The Pound Cake Company. "There are so many different combinations of those four ingredients," says Matthews-Hodges, who actually weighs the ingredien...

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