Sponge Cake

Ingredients

• Eggs 3.
• Their weight in castor sugar ; the weight of 2 eggs in flour.
• the weight of 2 eggs in flour.
• Flavouring.

Method

1. 1

   Beat the eggs and sugar together till light; this will only require about five or ten minutes if a Dover egg-beater is used, otherwise it will require at least twenty minutes' beating.

2. 2

   Stir in the flour (sifted), but do not beat it.

3. 3

   Add the flavouring.

4. 4

   Put into a greased and sugared tin, and bake at once in a slow oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Home cookery (1898) by North Midland School of Cookery, page 78. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sponge Cake. Eggs 3. Their weight in castor sugar ; the weight of 2 eggs in flour. Flavouring.

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