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Vanilla Spongecake

Cut half a stick of vanilla into small pieces, tie them in muslin, and put them into a saucepan with one gill of water and twelve ounces of refined sugar. Simmer these to a clear syrup, then take out the bag of flavouring, and stir the syrup into six eggs lightly beaten. Put the basin containing this mixture into a saucepan of boiling water over the fire. Draw the pan back and beat the batter briskly and continuously till thick and light. Stir in off the fire half a pound of flour, turn the batter into prepared moulds, and bake in a quick oven. Time to bake, half an hour or more.