sponge cake
(from The American Frugal Housewife, by Lydia Maria Child, 1832)
Ingredients:
Instructions:
(from The American Frugal Housewife, by Lydia Maria Child, 1832)
Ingredients:
sugar (by weight of 6 eggs)
flour (by weight of 4 eggs)
rose water
Instructions:
The nicest way to make sponge cake, or diet-bread, is the weight of six eggs in sugar, the weight of four eggs in flour, a little rose-water. The whites and yolks should be beaten thoroughly and separately. The eggs and sugar should be well beaten together; but after the flour is sprinkled, it should not be stirred a moment longer than is necessary to mix it well; it should be poured into the pan, and got into the oven with all possible expedition. Twenty minutes is about long enough to bake. Not to be put in till some other articles have taken off the first few minutes of furious heat.
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