Valuable recipe. Excellent sponge cake and cheap.
1⁄2 cupful of sugar-4 ounces.
2 eggs.
6 tablespoonfuls of water.
1 cupful of flour-4 ounces.
1 teaspoonful of baking powder.
Separate the eggs-the whites in a bowl or dish, the yolks in the mixing pan. Put the sugar and water in with the yolks, and beat them till they are a thick yellow froth. Mix the powder in the flour, add that and stir up well. Whip the whites firm, add them last. Suitable to bake in a cake mold, or in gem pans, with powdered sugar on top, or in a sheet spread on paper for jelly roll or for lining Charlotte molds.
Whitehead’s Family Cook Book, 1891