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Water Sponge Cake

14 ounces of granulated sugar--2 cups 8 eggs. 1/2 pint of water--a large cup. 18 ounces flour--4 rounded cups. 1 heaping teaspoonful baking powder. Separate the eggs, the whites into a good-sized bowl, the yolks into the mixing pan.

Put the sugar and water with the yolks and beat up until they are light and thick.

Mix the powder in the flour.

Whip the whites to a very firm froth, and when they are ready stir the flour into the yolk mixture and mix in the whipped whites last. Bake either in small sponge cake molds--the little tin oblong-shaped pans joined a dozen together--or else spread in a large pan, and cut the cake in squares when it is cold.