Sponge Cake

Ingredients

• Half a pound of Vienna Flour
• Half a pound of Loaf Sugar
• Quarter of a pint of water
• Eight Eggs

Method

1. 1

   Sift the flour.

2. 2

   Make a syrup of the sugar until it sticks to your fingers.

3. 3

   Beat the eggs well and add to the syrup, beat these well together for ten minutes, then work in the flour very lightly and by degrees, bake in a moderate oven from thirty to forty minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from High-class cookery recipes (1897) by Edith Nicolls Clarke, page 81. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sponge Cake. Ingredients. Half a pound of Vienna Flour, Half a pound of Loaf Sugar. Quarter of a pint of water. Eight Eggs

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