Ginger Sponge Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups brown sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 pint flour
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 1/2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder
• 1 tablespoon extract ginger
• 1 teaspoon extract lemon

Method

1. 1

   Beat the eggs and sugar together for 10 minutes; add the water, the flour sifted with the powder, and the extracts; mix into a smooth sponge, and bake in quick oven 30 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Royal baker and pastry cook (1913) by Royal Baking Powder Company, page 28. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 y teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 y pints flour, 1 cup milk, 1 tablespoon ex¬ tract ginger. Rub the butter and sugar to a light cream; add the eggs, 2 at a time, beat¬ ing 5 minutes between; add the flour, sifted with the powder, the milk and extract ; mix into a smooth batter ; bake in a cake-tin, in rather hot oven, 40 minutes. Gingerbread. — 1 cup brown sugar and 3 tablespoons butter, stirred to a cream ; add 1 cup New Orleans molasses, 2 eggs; mix well; stir dry 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder in 2y cups flour, put in ginger or spice to taste, bake in 1 loaf 1 hour. Hazelnut Cake. — 9 ounces flour, 4 ounces butter, 4 ounces sugar, 4 ounces chopped hazelnuts, 4 eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla, y tea¬ spoon salt, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder. Mix flour, salt, and baking powder. Cream butter and sugar, add vanilla, chopped nuts, and beaten yolks. Add flour, then whipped whites, and beat well. Bake in shallow pan in medium oven, and when cold ice with boiled icing. Jelly Cake. — Beat 3 eggs well, whites and yolks separately; take a cup of fine white sugar and beat in well with yolks, and 1 cup sifted flour, stirred in gently; then stir in the whites a little at a time, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, and 1 tablespoon milk ; pour into 3 jelly-cake plates and bake from 5 to 10 minutes in a well-heated oven; when cold spread with currant jelly, place each layer on top of the other, and sift powdered sugar on top. Ginger Sponge Cake. — 2 cups brown sugar, 4 eggs, 1 pint flour, y cup water, 1 y tea¬ spoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 tablespoon extract ginger, 1 teaspoon extract lemon

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