Sponge Cake No 2 Recipe

Four cups of flour, three cups of sugar, one cup of cold water, eight

eggs, two even tablespoonfuls of baking powder, the grated peel of an

orange. Pour the water on the sugar in a bowl, stir until almost

dissolved, beat the whites to a stiff froth, the yolks to a cream, put

one cup of flour with the yolks into the sugar and water, beat hard, add

the whites of the eggs, mix the baking powder with the flour, and stir

into the other ingredients by degrees quickly and lightly. Bake in a

shallow pan in a quick oven. When it no longer sizzles it is done. Ice

with a boiled icing while hot, flavored with almond extract.

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