Hot Water Sponge Cake

Yolks 2 eggs

1 cup sugar

⅜ cup hot water or milk

¼ teaspoon lemon extract

Whites two eggs

1 cup flour

1½ teaspoons baking powder

¼ teaspoon salt

Beat yolks of eggs until thick and lemon-colored, add one-half the sugar gradually, and continue beating; then add water, remaining sugar, lemon extract, whites of eggs beaten until stiff, and flour mixed and sifted with baking powder and salt. Bake twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven in a buttered and floured shallow pan.