SPONGE CAKE II
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons Dr. Price's Baking Powder
- ⅛ cup cold water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or other flavoring
Boil sugar and water until syrup spins a thread; add slowly to stiffly beaten whites of eggs, beating until mixture is cold; sift together three times, flour, salt and baking powder; beat yolks of eggs until thick; add a little at a time, flour mixture and egg yolks, alternately to white of egg mixture; stirring after each addition; add one-eighth cup cold water and flavoring; mix lightly. Bake in ungreased tube pan in moderate oven about one hour or shallow tin about thirty-five minutes.
MILK SPONGE CAKE
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 6 tablespoons hot milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla or lemon extract
- 1 cup flour
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 1½ teaspoons Dr. Price's Baking Powder
Beat yolks of eggs until thick; add half of sugar slowly, beating continually; add hot milk, remainder of sugar and whites of eggs beaten until stiff; add flavoring; add flour, salt and baking powder which have been sifted together. Bake in ungreased tube pan in moderate oven about 25 minutes.