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Sponge Cake (Four eggs one cupful sugar one)

Four eggs, one cupful sugar, one cupful of flour, half a teaspoonful of baking powder, one teaspoonful of extract of orange. Beat the yolks and sugar together, add the flour with the powder sifted in it, then the extract, and lastly the whites whipped to a froth; bake about thirty minutes in a steady oven.

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