Hot Water Sponge Cake

Ingredients

• Six eggs
• two cupfuls of sugar
• two of pastry flour
• half a cupful of boiling water
• the grated rind of half a lemon
• one teaspoonful of the juice

Method

1. 1

   Beat the yolks and sugar to a froth; also, beat the whites to a stiff froth.

2. 2

   Add the lemon to the yolks and sugar, then add the boiling water, next the whites, and, last of all, the flour.

3. 3

   Mix quickly, and bake in two sheets for half an hour in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's new cook book and marketing guide (1880) by Maria Parloa, page 161. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Hot Water Sponge Cake. Six eggs, two cupfuls of sugar, two of pastry flour, half a cupful of boiling water, the grated rind of half a lemon, and one teaspoonful of the juice

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