Lady-fingers

Ingredients

• Whites 3 eggs
• Yolks 2 eggs
• 0.5 cup powdered sugar
• 0.25 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• Pinch salt

Method

1. 1

   Beat whites until stiff and dry, add sugar gradually, and continue beating.

2. 2

   Then add yolks beaten until very thick.

3. 3

   Add flavoring, and fold in flour and salt, well mixed.

4. 4

   Shape into four and one-half inches long and one inch wide on a tin sheet, covered with unbuttered paper.

5. 5

   Sprinkle with powdered sugar, and bake eight minutes in rather moderate oven.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Scientific cooking with scientific methods (1911) by Sarah E. Woodworth Craig, page 133. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat \^hites until frothy, add cream of tartar, and continue beating until stiff and dry. Then add sugar ^adually. Fold in flour and salt, and add vanilla. Turn into a square or round pan without buttering. CAKES. 301 and bake for forty to fifty minutes in slow oven. The cake must not begin to brown until it has been in oven for twenty-five minutes; by this time it will have raised to its full height. The point in the angel food is in the baking, but with the gas cooking of the present day this can be accomplished perfectly. In preparing the flour for angel food I only sift once, as I consider it time wasted to sift oftener. Sunshine Cake. Whites 10 eggs. 1 teaspoon grated rind of liA cups powdered sugar. lemon. Yolks 7 eggs. 1 cup flour. 1 teaspoon cream of tartar. Beat whites until frothy, add cream of tartar, and continue beating until stiff and dry. Add the grated rind of the lemon, add sugar, folding in lightly, then yolks beaten until thick and lemon color; then the flour. Bake in angel food pan for forty minutes in slow oven, allowing the first fifteen minutes for the rising. Cool cake with pan reversed, same as angel food. Lady=fingers. Whites 3 eggs. ^b cup powdered sugar. Yolks 2 eggs. i{« cup flour. \^ teaspoon vanilla. Pinch salt. Beat whites until stifl: and dry, add sugar gradually, and continue beating. Then add yolks beaten until very thick. iVdd flavoring, and fold in flour and salt, well mixed. Then, with pastry bag and tube, shape into four and one-half mches long and one inch wide, mak- ing them narrow in the center on a tin sheet, covered with unbuttered paper. Sprinkle Avith powdered su^ar, and bake eight minutes in rather moderate oven. Ke- move with broad, thin-bladed knife. 302 SCIENTIFIC COOKING. Sponge Drops. Use lady-finger mixture, and drop from point of spoon on tin sheet covered with paper. Sprinkle with, powdered sugar and bake same as lady-fingerj. Two can be put together by using whites of eggs while they are a little warm. Jelly Roll. 3 eggs. 1 rounding teaspoon baking- 1 cup sugar. powder. 1 tablespoon water. 1 tablespoon melted butter. 1 cup flour. Pinch salt

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