Sponge Cake
Ingredients
- 6 egg yolks
- 6 egg whites
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Directions
- Beat the egg-yolks until thick and lemon colored.
- Add the sugar gradually and continue beating, using a dover egg-beater.
- Add the extract and whites of the eggs very stiffly beaten.
- Remove the egg beater and cut and fold the flour which has been sifted four times, the salt having been added to the last sifting.
- Bake one hour in an unbuttered, narrow pan in a slow oven.
- Genuine sponge cake has no baking powder or soda in it.
- The eggs must be vigorously beaten so that the cake will rise.
- A very slow oven is necessary.
- Increase the heat slightly every fifteen minutes.
- Do not cut sponge cake; it should be broken apart with a fork.
Other Information
Author: Louise Bennett Weaver, Helen Cowles LeCron
Source: A Thousand Ways To Please a Husband (1917-01-01)
Category: Dessert
Ingredients: egg yolk, egg white, sugar, flour, lemon extract, salt
Equipment: measuring cups, measuring spoons, knife, oven, egg beater, sifter
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