Angel Food

Ingredients

• 1 cup whites of eggs
• 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1.5 cups sugar
• 1 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon salt

Method

1. 1

   Beat whites until frothy, add cream of tartar, and continue beating until stiff and dry.

2. 2

   Then add sugar gradually.

3. 3

   Fold in flour and salt, and add vanilla.

4. 4

   Turn into a square or round pan without buttering and bake for forty to fifty minutes in slow oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Scientific cooking with scientific methods (1911) by Sarah E. Woodworth Craig, page 133. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

. 2 cups sugar. M>, cup boiling water. 2 cups Hour. 2 teaspoons baking-powder. Pinch salt. Have eggs cold. Separate ; place yolks in mixing- bowl and whites on platter. Measure flour and baking- 300 SCIENTIFIC COOKING. powder; mix well. Measure sugar, grate the thin out- side of lemon, and add juice to it. Have pans but- tered and lined. Beat whites until stiff and dry, and yolks until thick and lemon color. Add lemon juice and rind, then the third cup of boiling water. Fold in the whites, then the flour. Fold and beat until well incorporated. Turn into pan and bake in moderate oven. This is good for loaf or for sponge sheets, to be roiled or cut into fancy shapes. If a jelly roll is to be made, moisten towel and turn cake on it. Spread with jell}^ and roll at once while still warm. Cream Sponge Cake. 4 eggs, yolks and whites 2 teaspoons baking-powder, beaten separately. 1 teaspoon grated rind of 1 cup sugar. • lemon. 2 tablespoons cornstarch, Pinch salt. and flour to finish fill- 3 tablespoons cold water, ing the cup. Beat whites until stiff and dry, and yolks until thick and lemon color. Add sugar and beat again. Then add water and grated lemon peel. Fold in whites of eggs, then the flour, and cornstarch and baking- powder sifted together. ]\Iix all together thoroughly by folding. Turn into buttered and lined pans. Bake thirty minutes. Angel Food. 1 cup whites of eggs. 1 teaspoon cream of tartar. I'^i cups sugar. % teaspoon salt. 1 cup flour. 1 teaspoon vanilla

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.