Sponge Cake (3)

Ingredients

• To -I lb. flour
• 7 eggs, leaving out 3 whites
• Dissolve f lb. of loaf sugar
• well rubbed on the peel of a lemon, in ^ gill of water

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve sugar in water; put it into a saucepan; let it remain on the fire until it boils gently, then pour it boiling on the eggs, whisking them all the time.

2. 2

   Beat them together for half an hour; then add flour as lightly as possible, put it immediately into mould, and bake 1 hour in quick oven.

3. 3

   Mould must only be half filled, and prepared by being well buttered, then carefully dusted all over, first with flour, and then with finely powdered sugar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Tried favourites cookery book (1909) by Kirk, E. W. Mrs, page 160. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

pong^e Cake (3). To -I lb. flour well dried put 7 eggs, leaving out 3 whites ; beat thean well, yolks and whites sejiarately. Dissolve f lb. of loaf sugar, well rubbed on the peel of a lemon, in ^ gill of water

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