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Hot Water Sponge Cake

Ingredients

• yolks 2 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 3/8 cup hot water
• 1/4 teaspoon lemon extract
• whites 2 eggs
• 1 cup flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Instructions

Beat yolks of eggs until thick and lemon-colored, add one-half the sugar gradually, and continue beating; then add water, remaining sugar, lemon extract, whites of eggs beaten until stiff, and flour mixed and sifted with baking powder and salt. Bake twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven in a buttered and floured shallow pan.

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Source

The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896)

Categories

Sponge Cakes.