Cheap Sponge Cake

Ingredients

• Yolks 3 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon hot water
• 1 cup flour
• 1½ teaspoons baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• Whites 3 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vinegar

Steps

1. Beat yolks of eggs until thick and lemon-colored, add sugar gradually, and continue beating; then add water, flour mixed and sifted with baking powder and salt, whites of eggs beaten until stiff, and vinegar. Bake thirty-five minutes in a moderate oven, in a buttered and floured cake pan.

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From The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910), now in the public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg.