Quick Sponge Cake

Ingredients

• two eggs
• two cupfuls of sugar
• two cupfuls of flour
• two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder
• half a teaspoonful of salt
• three-quarters of a cupful of boiling water
• a teaspoonful of lemon extract

Method

1. 1

   Beat eggs and sugar until light.

2. 2

   Add flour mixed with baking powder and salt.

3. 3

   Lastly, add boiling water and lemon extract.

4. 4

   Bake quickly in two small loaves.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 76. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two eggs and two cupfuls of sugar together |see p. 213 VIOLET JELLY WITH WHIPPED CREAM AND WREATH OF VIOLETS [See p. 163 GRAPE FRUIT WITH MARASCHINO CHERRIES [See p. 97 EGGS A LA BONNE FEMME Straws CAKES Wafers, Almond till very light. Add two cupfuls of flour in which two teaspoonfuls of bak- ing-powder and half a teaspoonful of salt have been mixed. Lastly, add three-quarters of a cupful of boiling water and a teaspoonful of lemon extract. Bake quickly in two small loaves. Straws. — One quart of flour, one teaspoonful of baking-powder; in this cut finely a piece of butter the size of an egg, break three eggs in, and add two cupfuls of sugar and one cupful of milk. Cut out about as thick as doughnuts, and fry in hot lard. Sunshine Cake and Cream. — "Mix one-half cupful of flour and one tea- spoonful of cream of tartar, and sift five times ; sift three-quarters of a cup- ful of granulated sugar three times ; beat the whites of six eggs very stiff, and slowly beat the sugar in, using a long, not a Dover, egg-beater; have the yolks of two eggs beaten by some one else, that they may be put in at once after the sugar, and then add the flour last, with one-half teaspoonful of vanilla flavoring, beating all the time. Bake in a large, round tin with a tube in the* middle, and when cold turn over and cut off the bottom of the cake and take out the inside with a fork ; fill this shell solidly full of rich, French vanilla ice - cream, put the cover on again and cover with powdered sugar. Cut wedge - shaped pieces directly through the whole. If a large com- pany is to be served, the quantities may be doubled. Sweet Cakes. — Three eggs, one teacupful of butter or lard, two cupfuls of sifted flour, one grated nutmeg, two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder

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