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Plain Sponge Cake

Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 2 cups of fine powdered sugar
• 2 cup of sifted flour
• 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder

Instructions

Beat the yolks of the eggs together with fine powdered sugar. Stir in gradually one cup of sifted flour and the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth, then a cup of sifted flour in which baking powder have been stirred, and, lastly, a scant teacupful of boiling water, stirred in a little at a time. Flavor, add salt and, however thin the mixture may seem, do not add any more flour. Bake in shallow tins.

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Source

The White House Cookbook (1887)

Categories

Sponge Cakes.