Sponge Cake No. 1

Ingredients

• Four eggs
• one cup sugar
• one cup flour
• one teaspoon baking powder
• one tablespoon of milk

Method

1. 1

   Beat eggs and sugar together, add flour and baking powder.

2. 2

   Bake in tins six by ten.

3. 3

   This makes two rolls.

4. 4

   When baked take out of pan, spread with jelly and roll up.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pennsylvania German cook book (1902) by Keller, J. A. Mrs, page 4. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SPONGE CAKE NO. 1. Three eggs, one and one half cups of powdered sugar, two cups sifted flour, two teaspoons cream of tartar and one teaspoon soda, one half cup cold water, grated rind and half the juice of one lemon, bake in a dripping pan. Mrs. F d. S. sponge cake no 2. Four eggs, one cup flour, one cup su¬ gar, one fourth teaspoon soda, or one tea¬ spoon baking powder, one tablespoon of milk. S. K. SPONGE CAKE NO 3. Three eggs (beat one minute,) one and a half cups sugar, (beat 5 minutes) one cui) flour, (beat one minute) one half cup cold water, anotlier cuj) of flour, witli two teaspoons baking powder, (beat one minute,) Bake slowly. Mrs. K. M alt/.. Wadsworth, Ohio. Tliree eggs, one cup of sugar, three tablespoons of boiling water, two tea- sp(M)ns baking powder, flavor with lemon, flour to make a soft batter, beat all to¬ gether. Mrs. J. Johnson. Alliance, Ohio. SPONGE CAKE NO 5. One and a half cups sugar, one and a half cups flour, one and a half teaspoons of baking powder, three eggs, one half cup boiling water, beat whites and yolks separate until stiff, then put together and beat again, lastly, add hot water. Mrs. M'm. False, Akron. SPONGE CAKE ROLLS Four eggs, one cup sugar, one cup flour, one teaspoon baking powder

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