finished baking the Family Chocolate Pound cake. I am pleased with the result

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Later on I am going to bake the cake part of the coconut cake and freeze the layers. I can frost it tomorrow.

I am also going to make some boiled custard. It is a way to use up all the egg yolks that are liberated when you separate out the egg whites for the cake. The recipe I am using will use 8 egg yolks; the cake uses 6 egg whites.
I can save the two extra egg whites and mix them up with some whole eggs for breakfast tomorrow .

My friend will get some in the traditional screw top jar and I will take the rest to the family dinner. I am willing to bet he has never heard of it but he is getting a coconut cake so he will get custard too.

( when I was growing up in Kentucky , during the holidays every refrigerator in town had at least one 1 quart Mason jar of boiled custard inside) We always had it with coconut cake, ambrosia and a little bit of "flavoring" AKA bourbon in our cups. Our ambrosia was all fresh citrus fruit, bananas, pineapple chunks and coconut; no marshmallows or creamy gunk.