Five Minutes’ Cake

Ingredients

• The weight of two eggs in Flour and Castor Sugar
• One large teaspoonful of Baking Powder
• Essence.

Method

1. 1

   Separate the whites and yolks of the eggs, put the yolks into a mixing-bowl and the whites on to a plate and beat throughout.

2. 2

   Add the whites, which must be quite stiff, to the yolks, stirring with a metal spoon.

3. 3

   Stir the sugar and flour gradually into the eggs.

4. 4

   Lastly add the baking powder and essence.

5. 5

   Grease two Victoria sandwich tins.

6. 6

   Put half the mixture into each and make the top smooth with a knife.

7. 7

   Bake in a very hot oven for five minutes.

8. 8

   When cool spread jam in between and dust with sugar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Easy dishes for small incomes, or, The housewife's guide to practical cookery (1906) by E. M. Buchan, page 37. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FIVE MINUTES’ CAKE Ingredients ; The weight of two eggs in Flour and Castor Sugar One large teaspoonful of Baking Powder Essence.

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