Delightful Sponge Cake

Ingredients

• Thirteen eggs
• one and a half pounds sugar
• one pound flour
• half teacup cold water
• flavor with lemon
• chop a can of pineapple
• juice of one lemon
• cut up several bananas
• sugar to taste

Method

1. 1

   Beat yolks, add sugar, then whites.

2. 2

   Sift flour in gradually.

3. 3

   Just before baking, add lemon flavor and cold water.

4. 4

   Bake in layers and fill with fruit mixture.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 77. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Delightful Sponge Cake. — Thirteen eggs, one and a half pounds sugar, one pound flour ; beat yolks well, add sugar and then add whites after being well beaten ; put flour in through a sieve, a small quantity at a time; stir in gently (never beat it in). Just before baking, flavor with lemon and stir in half tea- cup cold water. Bake quickly in layers and put together with the following: Grate an orange, chop a can of pineapple (do not use the grated), juice of one lemon, cut up several bananas, sugar to taste

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