Berwick Sponge Cake

Ingredients

• six eggs
• three cups of sugar
• two cups of flour
• one cup of cold water
• two teaspoonfuls cream tartar
• one teaspoonful of soda
• one teaspoonful of lemon
• one teaspoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Beat eggs for two minutes, sugar for five minutes, flour for one minute, and cold water for one minute.

2. 2

   Add flour with cream tartar and beat for one minute.

3. 3

   Add soda in water, lemon, and salt.

4. 4

   Make in ten minutes if everything is ready.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Statesmen's dishes; and how to cook them (1890) by Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress), page 33. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BERWICK SPONGE CAKE. BY MRS. WM. P. FRYE. (Wife of Senator from Maine.) ^IX eggs, beat two minutes ; three cups of sugar, beat five minutes ; two cups of flour, beat one minute ; one cup of cold water, beat one min- ute; two more cups flour, two teaspoonfuls cream tartar in the flour, beat one minute ; one teaspoonful of soda put in the water, one teaspoonful of lemon and salt. Make in ten minutes, if everything is in readiness. tfTslsl^ ^^ /^^-^Cl^O 3 (^T^^*^ AND SOW TO COOK THEM. 173 GINGERBREAD, BY MRS. WM. P. FItYE. (Wife of Senator from Maine.) £EKEE eggs, one cup of molasses, one cup of sour milk, one cup of chopped raisins, one teaspoonful of soda (heaping), two cups of flour, spice to taste. 174 STATESMEN'S DISHES; SPONGE CAKE. BY MRS. JOHN H. REAGAN. (Wife of Senator from Texas.) |AKE the whites of twenty eggs, two gobletfuls of flour, three of pulverized sugar, two tea- spoonfuls of extract of lemon essence, and one of cream of tartar. Sift the flour carefully, mix the sugar, eggs and lemon thoroughly and stir in the flour gradually, taking care not to toughen it by too much beating. The great test is in the baking. The oven should be very hot, and it should be baked but a few minutes, until it is a light brown. AND HOW TO COOK THEM. 178 SPONGE CAKE. BY MRS. GILBERT A. PIERCE. (Wife of Senator from North Dakota.) pNE pound of sugar, one of flour, ten eggs. Stii yolks of eggs and sugar till perfectly light. Beat whites of eggs, and add them with flour after beating togething lightly. Flavor with lemon. Three teaspoonfuls of baking powder will add to its lightness. Bake in a moderate oven. ptLl 4.J.& AJLSisOL/ 176 STATESMEN'S DISHES; SUNSHINE CAKE. BY MBS. GIDEON C. MOODY. (Wife of Senator from South Dakota.) •JAKE the same as angel cake, using one teaspoonful of orange extract instead of vanilla, and adding the well-beaten yolks of six eggs

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