My grandmother's pound cake recipe turned into a pancake somehow

I tried to bake my nana's old pound cake recipe last weekend for the first time. She always made it look so easy growing up, just throwing things together. Well I followed her handwritten card exactly but when I pulled it out of the oven it was flat as a pancake and dense like a brick. Turns out her recipe calls for cake flour and I used all purpose flour on accident because I didn't know there was a difference lol. I also think my oven runs hotter than hers did so the outside burned before the inside cooked through. At least my sister got a laugh out of it and said it reminded her of nana's first attempt too. Anyone else find old family recipes need way more adjustments than you expect?

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jones.grace7d ago

Wait, did you check if that handwritten card had any abbreviations or shorthand that could've thrown you off? My aunt's recipes use weird symbols for measurements no one can figure out now. Also, how old was that oven when nana was using it compared to yours?

nancy_owens7d agoMost Upvoted

No way @jones.grace, an old oven just makes everything taste better lmao.