Crisco Sponge Cake Recipe 1

Ingredients for vegetable shortening Sponge Cake

• 3 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• ½ cup vegetable shortening
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1¼ cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ teaspoon orange extract
• ½ cup cold water

Instructions

1. Cream vegetable shortening; add salt, yolks of eggs well beaten, and sugar, and beat for five minutes, add orange extract and cold water.
2. Beat up whites of eggs to a stiff froth and add alternately with the flour sifted with the baking powder.
3. Divide into vegetable shorteninged and floured gem pans and bake in a moderate oven for fifteen minutes.
4. Sufficient for twelve cakes.