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As a child, I loved fried chicken, hamburgers, and pizza, but not lunchroom food, vegetables, or food at somebody else\u2019s house.  When it came to Pound Cake, I could take it or leave and I usually left it.  I later realized it was just because I had never had the creamiest, most delicious pound cake that had ever been baked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On one particularly normal day, my world was changed. I was in my early 30s and pregnant with our last child. Mrs. Carolyn Wilbourn showed up at the pastorium just outside of Enterprise, Alabama on Highway 27 where my husband was the pastor of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church.\u00a0 She was smiling as she extended her arms and handed me a warm, freshly baked, creamy, cream cheese POUND CAKE! \u00a0 The Southern words rolled sweetly off her tongue as she said, \u201cHoney, I brought y\u2019all a Pound Cake fresh outta the oven.\u00a0 I hope y\u2019all like it.\u201d\u00a0 I assured her we would enjoy it as we chatted about the church and community happenings.\u00a0 As she left, I placed the cake on the counter without giving it a second thought. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Later that evening after supper, I remembered the cake and decided to cut a piece for Cavin and me.  And that\u2019s when my world was changed.  That\u2026..  Pound\u2026. Cake!  It was melt-in-your-mouth goodness\u2026.  I couldn\u2019t get enough of it.  My pregnant self had the whole cake eaten in just two days only allowing Cavin two slices.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My love affair with Pound Cake was just getting started.\u00a0 I let Mrs. Carolyn know just how much we had enjoyed it.\u00a0 And that\u2019s all it took to get the Cawthon household on the Pound Cake rotation.\u00a0 Every so often, Mrs. Carolyn would call to let us know she was on the way over with a fresh outta-the-oven Pound Cake delivery.\u00a0 It\u2019s a good thing I was pregnant so I didn\u2019t have to worry about all of those extra pounds.\u00a0 I was starting to understand why it was called \u201cPound\u201d Cake!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a couple of years of enjoying the best Pound Cakes in the world, Cavin did a terrible thing to me.  He moved me away from Mrs. Carolyn Wilbourn\u2026. all the way to Marietta, Georgia.  What was I going to do?  I wasn\u2019t sure I could survive without my regular Pound Cake delivery.  I knew I was going to have to learn how to make Pound Cakes myself if I was going to survive in suburbia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I asked Mrs. Carolyn for her recipe, not sure if she would be willing to share something so precious with me\u2026  Mrs. Carolyn said she used the traditional Cream Cheese Pound Cake recipe that could be found in any cookbook.  I was elated\u2026.  Now I could make my own delicious Pound Cakes\u2026.  The only tip Mrs. Carolyn gave me was to put out my cold ingredients a few hours before making the cake to bring them to room temperature.  That was easy enough… or so I thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got out my trusted cookbook that my mother had given me when Cavin and I married\u2026.  The Brewton Civic League Cookbook.  This cookbook was made up of tried and true recipes of Southern matriarchs from Brewton, Alabama – women who had poured their heart and soul into being the best Southern women they could possibly be and this meant cooking up some of the best dishes South of the Mason-Dixon line.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n