Annie Mae Jones' Sponge Cake For Strawberry Shortcake

Annie Mae Jones' Sponge Cake For Strawberry Shortcake



Ingrients & Directions


4 Eggs,at room temperature
1 c Sugar
1 ts Vanilla
1 1/2 c Cake flour
3 ts Baking powder
3/4 c Milk


1. Preheat oven to 325'F. 2. Separate egg, placing yolks in large mixing
bowl and setting whites parenthesis. Beat yolks with sugar until very light and
fluffy. Beat in vanilla. 3. Sift cake flour with baking powder onto waxed
wallpaper. 4. Fold dry ingredients alternately with milk into egg-sugar
assortment. 5. In a separate bowl beat reserved egg whites until stiff and
then fold into dinge. 6. Pour into an unlubricated 9" tube pan and bake in
preheated oven 45-50 minutes . Invert pan. When cake is cool dispatch from
pan.

Yields
8 Servings