Chocolate Sponge Cake

Ingredients

• ½ cup Lowney's Always Ready Chocolate Powder
• whites of 3 eggs
• 2 tablespoons hot water
• yolks of 3 eggs
• ½ cup sugar
• ½ cup pastry flour
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Beat yolks until lemon-colored and thick; add sugar and continue beating.

2. 2

   Mix chocolate with water, add to sugar mixture; cut and fold in flour, salt and beaten whites.

3. 3

   Flavor and bake in buttered pan in a moderate oven three quarters of an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Lowney's cook book (1907) by Maria Willett Howard, page 99. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

cup sugar late, grated 5 egg yolks 2 cups flour 5 egg whites i cup brandy 1 cup citron cut in small pieces I teaspoon salt Cream butter; add sugar gradually, yolks of eggs beaten until thick and lemon-colored, flour, citron, salt. Beat well; cut and fold in whites of eggs beaten until stiff. Pour into buttered pans and bake one hour in a moderate oven. This cake may be baked in a buttered dripping pan and when cold cut into fancy shapes and iced. Cocoa Cake I cup butter i cup milk 1| cups sugar Ih cups flour 4 eggs 2 teaspoons baking powder i cup Lowney's Cocoa i teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 250 lownet's cook book Mix in the order given and beat well for five minutes. Bake in buttered pan thirty to forty minutes in moderate oven. Walnut Chocolate Cake I cup Lowney's Always Ready 1 cup sugar Chocolate Powder 2 egg yolks I- cup butter 2| teaspoons baking powder 1| cups flour 2 tablespoons hot water I cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup walnut meats salt Cream butter; add sugar, yolks of eggs well beaten and flour in which baking powder has been sifted, milk, and chocolate which has been moistened with hot water ; beat well and add walnut meats. Bake in buttered jelly cake pans about twenty minutes. Spread one cake with one half cup of Lowney's Sweet Chocolate Powder moistened with one fourth cup boiling water and flavored with one teaspoon vanilla. Sprinkle with broken walnuts, cover with other cake, and ice with white frosting. See colored illustration, Plate IX, opposite. Chocolate Sponge Cake ^ cup Lowney's Always Ready whites of 3 eggs Chocolate Powder 2 tablespoons hot water yolks of 3 eggs ^ teaspoon salt ^ cup sugar ^ cup pastry flour 1 teaspoon vanilla

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