SPONGE CAKE
Pies, Cakes and Desserts
Ingredients
- 1 cake
- 5 egg whites
- 5 egg yolks
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice or vinegar
- grated lemon rind from 1/2 lemon
- 1 cup flour, sifted four times with 1/4 teaspoon salt
Directions
Beat egg whites until stiff but not dry. Beat in 1 tablespoon sifted sugar for each egg white (this comes out of the 1 cup called for in ingredients).
Add liquid to egg yolks and beat until lemon-colored and so thick that beater turns with difficulty. Add lemon rind.
Beat in remainder of sugar. Combine yolks and whites and fold together until mixture is even. Mix and sift remaining dry ingredients and cut and fold into batter.
No further instructions were given on the original recipe.
Bake in an UNGREASED tube pan at 350° for about 45 minutes???
Add liquid to egg yolks and beat until lemon-colored and so thick that beater turns with difficulty. Add lemon rind.
Beat in remainder of sugar. Combine yolks and whites and fold together until mixture is even. Mix and sift remaining dry ingredients and cut and fold into batter.
No further instructions were given on the original recipe.
Bake in an UNGREASED tube pan at 350° for about 45 minutes???
Source: PDF page 153
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