Angel Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup granulated sugar
• J teaspoon salt
• 1 cup egg whites
• 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Beat egg whites on platter with wire beater.

2. 2

   When foamy, add cream of tartar; when stiff, add sugar gradually.

3. 3

   Sift flour four times with salt.

4. 4

   Cut and fold into egg mixture.

5. 5

   Add vanilla, bake one hour in moderate oven in angel cake pan.

6. 6

   Invert pan on cake cooler and allow it to drop out itself.

7. 7

   If too brown, wrap in wet cheese cloth for ten minutes; then brown may be easily removed.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Lowney's cook book (1907) by Maria Willett Howard, page 102. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

angel cake pan forty to fifty minutes. True Sponge Cake 6 eggs 1 cup flcur 1 cup sugar juice and rind one lemon i teaspoon salt Follow directions for making Sponge Cake. Bake in a deep pan forty to sixty minutes. Angel Cake 1 cup granulated sugar J teaspoon salt 1 cup egg whites 1 teaspoon cream of tartar 1 cup flour 1 teaspoon vanilla

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