Buckeye Cookery

Tried and approved: the great American housekeeping bible of 1880.

HomeLayer-Cakes. - › Velvet Sponge Cake

Velvet Sponge Cake

Two cups sugar, six eggs leaving out the whites of three, one cup boiling hot water, two and one half cups flour, one table-spoon baking-powder in the flour; beat the yolks a little, add the sugar and beat fifteen minutes; add the three beaten whites, and the cup of boiling water just before the flour; flavor with a tea-spoon lemon extract and bake in three layers, putting between them icing made by adding to the three whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth, six dessert-spoons of pulverized sugar to each egg, and lemon to flavor. -Mrs. Wm. Brown, Massillon.

← Thanksgiving CakeVanity Cake →