American Sponge Cake

Name: American Sponge Cake
Ingredients: Beat a half pound of sugar; with four eggs; Add a quarter pint sweet milk; a half teaspoonful ARM AND HAMMER SODA (or Saleratus); a half teaspoonful vanilla extract; twelve ounces flour sifted; an even teaspoonful of cream of tartar

From Arm & Hammer Soda book of valuable recipes, 1900

Presented as published in 1900. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Arm & Hammer Soda book of valuable recipes (1900) by Church & Dwight Co, page 15. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

AMERICAN SPONGE CAKE. Beat a half pound of sugar with four eggs, light. Add a quarter pint sweet milk, a half teaspoonful ARM AND HAMMER SODA (or Saleratus). a half teaspoonful vanilla extract and twelve ounces flour sifted with an even teaspoonful of cream of tartar

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