Sponge Cake, No. 1 Recipe

Ingredients for Sponge Cake, No. 1

• 6 eggs
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup flour
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• Grated rind and juice of 1 lemon

Instructions

1. No. 1 Recipe, Sift the flour and salt; beat the eggs separately, add the sugar slowly to the beaten yolks, add lemon juice and rind, add the whites beaten very stiff, fold in the flour.
2. Bake in rather deep tin for about fifty minutes.
3. Do not open the oven door for the first fifteen minutes, at the end of that time it should begin to rise, at the end of the next fifteen minutes it should double its bulk, by the end of the next twenty it should be sufficiently browned and baked through.