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Sponge Cake

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Instructions

  1. Beat 4 egg whites - 1st. Beat 4 egg yolks next.
  2. Sprinkle in egg yolks:
  3. 1 cup sugar, ¼ teaspoon soda, ½ teaspoon salt.
  4. Add:
  5. 2 ½ Tablespoon cold water, 1 Tablespoon lemon Juice or Real Lemon - not lemon extract.
  6. 1 cup unsifted flour and 1 rounding teaspoon baking powder.
  7. Sift flour and b. pd. into eggs and mix gently.
  8. Use beaten on "Slow" and gold egg whites into other abtter.
  9. Bake 1 hour at 325°

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