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 Any light sweet cake made with flour and sugar etc. usually when given a sponge-like texture by the addition of egg. Before the invention of baking powder in the mid 19th Century the usual method of achieving lightness was by frothing egg-white. As with many everyday products, early receipts are rare. The term is not known before 1808, when it appears in Jane Austen's letters.  Original Receipt from 'Modern Domesic Cookery' by Elizabeth Hammond (Hammond 1819)Spunge cake. Weigh fifteen eggs, put their weight in very fine sugar, and that of nine in flour, beat the yolks with the flour, and the whites alone to a very stiff froth; then by degrees mix the whites and the flour with the other ingredients, and beat them forty minutes. Bake in a quick oven about one hour and ten minutes. Original Receipt from 'Pot-luck; or, The British home cookery book' by May Byron (Byron 1914)866. SPONGE CAKE (Surrey) Three eggs, their weight in castor sugar, the weight of two eggs in flour, three drops essence of lemon. Beat the eggs and sugar together, till light (quite twenty minutes' good beating), stir in the flour, but do not beat it, add the flavouring, put into a greased and sugared tin, and bake at once in a moderate oven, about thirty minutes. 867. CHEAP SPONGE CAKE (Surrey) Three eggs, three cupfuls of flour, two cupfuls of sugar, half-cupful of milk, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, half teaspoonful of soda, lemon. Bake quick. (Breakfast-cups are apparently intended. Ed.) 868. RICH SPONGE CAKE (Hampshire) Break twelve large eggs into a deep basin, beat for ten minutes, sift in by degrees one pound of castor sugar; when this has been beaten all together twenty minutes, sift half a pound of pastry flour and half a pound of self-raising flour, previously well mixed together and warmed. Continue to beat, till the time in aU is half an hour. Put into tins well buttered and sugared, and bake for one hour. For a wide variety of traditional sponge cakes, see Vine's Shop Goods, 1907 and... Cakes Albert Cakes Bridgwater Carnival Pudding Brighton Gingerbread Buckingham Cakes Carrot Cake Cheese and Apple Cake Cherry and Almond Cake Chocolate and Orange Cake Cockle Cakes Courting Cake (1) Cup Cakes Diet Bread Cake Dorset Apple Cake Dover Cakes Duchess Cakes Elderflower Cake Exeter Pudding Fairy Cakes Ginger Cake Granny Cake Grasmere Cake Hampshire Roll Harrogate Sponge Hazelnut Shortcake Kensington Cakes Ladyfingers, or, Boudoir Biscuits Lakeland Lemon Cake Lambing Cake Leamingtons Lemon Cake Lemon Drizzle Cake Lemon or Orange Pudding Lime Syrup Cake Lord Mayor's Trifle Madeira Cake Malvern Cakes Marble Cake or Marble Teabread Marmalade Miller's Marmalade Pudding Northamptonshire Seed Cake Orange Cake Paradise Loaf Picnic Cake Plum and Apple Dumpling Rhubarb Sponge Cake Ripon Plum Cake Shoeburyness Pudding Shropshire Apple Cake Somerset Apple Cake Sponge Cake Swiss Roll Tapioca Pudding Tavistock Cakes Tipsy Cake Pudding Tipsy Squire Tipsy Trifle Tottenham Cake Tunis Cake Upside Down Cake Victoria Sandwich Sponge Cake Wassail Custard White Cake Wimbledon Cake  |
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