The BEST Pound Cake Recipe in the South is one way to go, and another is How pound cake became a Southern classic. You can dip back into history, or you can go the encyclopedic route. Perhaps you prefer Old-Fashioned Pound Cake, or The Best Pound Cake? The Vintage Recipe Project has you covered with the Duncan Hines Lemon Supreme Pound Cake. Note, also, that important pound cake research is happening in the 2020s.

Orange is one flavor that is not infrequently incorporated into pound cakes, as witness the Orange Creamsicle Pound Cake, the Orange Pound Cake, the Orange Cream Cheese Pound Cake, or Giada De Laurentiis' Toasted Pound Cake with Citrus Cream. [This post brought to you by an unanticipated and intense longing for pound cake on a day that will probably feature no baked goods whatsoever. .]