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Crisco Sponge Cake

1/4 cupfuls flour 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 1½ teaspoonful orange extract 1½ cupful cold water Cream Crisco; add salt, yolks of eggs well beaten, and sugar, and beat for five minutes, add orange extract and cold water. Beat up whites of eggs to a stiff froth and add alternately with the flour sifted with the baking powder. Divide into Criscoed and floured gem pans and bake in a moderate oven for fifteen minutes.

Sufficient for twelve cakes. 1 cupful sugar 1 cupful Crisco 1 teaspoonful salt

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