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Sponge Cake II

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup water
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/8 cup cold water
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or other flavoring

Instructions

Boil sugar and water until syrup spins a thread.

Add slowly to stiffly beaten whites of eggs, beating until mixture is cold.

Sift together three times, flour, salt and baking powder.

Beat yolks of eggs until thick.

Add a little at a time, flour mixture and egg yolks, alternately to white of egg mixture; stirring after each addition.

Add one-eighth cup cold water and flavoring; mix lightly.

Bake in ungreased tube pan in moderate oven about one hour or shallow tin about thirty-five minutes.

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Notes

See also, Sponge Cake.

Source

The New Dr. Price Cookbook (1921)

Categories

Sponge Cakes.