Bread Sponge Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cupfuls of bread sponge
• % cupful butter
• 1^2 cupTuls sugar
• 1 cupful flour
• 3 egg yolks
• 1 teaspoonful ginger
• 1 teaspoonful cinnamon
• 1 teaspoonful cocoa
• 1 teaspoonful soda
• dissolved in % cupful of warm water
• 1 cupful of chopped and floured raisins
• 14 teaspoonful of salt
• 3 stifily beaten egg whites

Method

1. 1

   Mix together 2 cupfuls of bread sponge, 0.5 cupful butter, 1.5 cupfuls sugar, 1 cupful flour, 3 egg yolks, 1 teaspoonful ginger, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, 1 teaspoonful cocoa, 1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in 0.5 cupful of warm water, 1 cupful of chopped and floured raisins, 0.25 teaspoonful of salt and 3 stifily beaten egg whites.

2. 2

   Pour mixture into a floured pan and bake at once in a moderate oven.

3. 3

   Cover with a caramel or other icing when the cake is cool.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The farm cook & rule book (1923) by Nell Beaubien Nichols, page 12. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Bread Sponge Cake Mix together 2 cupfuls of bread sponge, % cupful butter, 1^2 cupTuls sugar, 1 cupful flour, 3 egg yolks, 1 teaspoonful ginger, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, 1 teaspoonful cocoa, 1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in % cupful of warm water, 1 cupful of chopped and floured raisins, 14 teaspoonful of salt and 3 stifily beaten egg whites

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