Country Sponge Cake 1972 Food

COUNTRY SPONGE CAKE 1972

Steps:

• Preheat oven 325 degrees Fahrenheit.
• In a large mixer bowl, beat the egg whites until foamy.
• Add the cream of tartar and continue beating until stiff peaks form.
• Set aside.
• In other mixer bowl beat egg yolks on high speed for one minute.
• Add the sugar, salt, lemon juice, and zest.
• Beat on high speed for 5 minutes.
• By hand, with a spatula, fold the flour quickly into the yolk mixture.
• Add about 1/3 of the beaten egg whites into the mixture and fold in also.
• Add the remaining whites in two additions, folding and combining well but not deflating the air beaten into the whites. Little patches of white still show, that's okay.
• Place in an UNGREASED angel food TUBE pan.
• Bake for 40 minutes; top will be a nice golden brown.
• Remove from oven to a rack to cool for one hour undisturbed.
• Loosen around edges and bottom with sharp knife.
• Tip cake out of pan onto rack and cool completely before serving or storing.

COFFEE AND BANANA SPONGE CAKE

Steps:

• #1 Way of Making;.
• Grease and flour or line with baking paper, a square 8" cake pan.
• Heat oven to 350'C/180'F.
• Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Beat in the coffee essence.
• Mix in the mashed bananas.
• Add egg and milk.
• Sift together the dry ingredients and fold into creamed mixture.
• Scoop into prepared tin and bake for approx 35 minutes, or until cake springs back when touched with finger and is shrinking from sides of tin.
• Remove from oven and cool in tin for 5mins then turn onto a rack to cool completely.
• When cold cut in half and fill with sweetened whipped cream and dust top with icing sugar.
• #2 Way of Making;.
• Sift flour and baking powder and salt into bowl of mixer.
• Add in the sugar, egg, coffee essence and mashed bananas.
• Stir the baking soda into the milk and add to bowl.
• Melt the butter and add last.
• Beat on high speed until just mixed then scoop into greased & floured or, baking paper lined 8" tin.
• Bake 35mins approx and continue as for #1.
• *For a special effect ice/frost top with coffee butter icing and decorate with chopped walnuts.

ALL-IN-ONE SPONGE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (325F if you know your oven is really hot).
• Measure out all the ingredients, put in to a large bowl and beat until well blended (I use an electric mixer but you can do this by hand).
• Divide this between the two tins; level out and bake in the oven for approx 30-35 minutes, until well risen and the top of the sponges spring back when lightly pressed with your finger.
• Leave them to cool for 5 minutes in the tin before you turn them out; remove the paper and let them completely cool on a cake rack.
• When cold, sandwich them together with your favorite filling.
• Sprinkle caster or powdered sugar on the top.

CAKE BOSS SPONGE CAKE RECIPE

Steps:

• 1. Beat eggs in large mixing bowl with paddle attachment for 4 minutes. Do not skip this step!
• 2. Add sugar, and continue beating for another 4-5 minutes until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and stir on low until just combined.
• 3. In a separate bowl, sift together dry ingredients. Add to eggs and sugar on low speed until just combined.
• 4. In a saucepan, heat milk and butter on low heat just until butter is melted. Add to batter, beat just until combined.
• 5. Pour into two greased and floured 8" round cake pans.
• 6. Bake at 325 until the middle springs back when touched, or a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean (about 30 to 35 minutes). Remove from oven and let stand in pans for 10 minutes. Then turn out onto wire cooling racks and cool completely.
• Hint: Cakes are close to being done when you start to smell them.

SPONGE CAKE (PORTUGUESE PAO DE LO)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F Grease and parchment paper line a 10 inch tube pan, set aside.
• Beat the eggs with the salt until light. Gradually beat in the sugar at medium speed and beat for at least 20 minutes, add rind if using.
• In a separate bowl combine the flour and baking powder and stir with a fork or whisk. At low speed, add the flour mixture to the eggs one heaping tablespoon at a time, blending well after each addition, and scraping down the sides of the bowl when necessary.
• Pour the batter into the pan and bake for approximately 35 minutes, or until a cake tester inserted comes out clean (cake will spring back to a light touch). If you like a crust on the top of the cake, sprinkle the 1 tablespoon of sugar on top of the batter prior to baking.
• Let the cake cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then remove from pan and peel off parchment paper. Let cool completely on rack. Dust with icing sugar before serving if desired.

TRUE SPONGE CAKE

Steps:

• Measure all ingredients.
• Sift sugar through fine sifter one to four times before measuring.
• Sift flour once before measuring.
• Separate yolks and whites of eggs.
• They will beat easily if at room temperature.
• Beat egg whites until stiff but not dry and beat in gradually 1 tablespoon sugar for each egg white (out of sugar called for in recipe) and set aside.
• It is unnecessary to wash beater before beating yolks.
• Add liquid to egg yolks and beat until lemon-colored and so thick that beater turns with difficulty.
• Add lemon rind.
• Beat in remaining sugar.
• Combine yolks and whites and fold together with spoon until mixture is even.
• Mix and sift remaining dry ingredients and cut and fold into egg mixture.
• Do not beat after adding flour, to avoid breaking air bubbles.
• Pour into un buttered tube pan (9-inch), two 9-inch layer pans, or 12 to 18 muffin tins.
• Cut through mixture several times to break large air bubbles.
• Bake 1 hour or more in moderately slow oven (3250 F.), if in angel-cake or other deep pan.
• Bake 25 to 30 minutes in moderate oven (350F.) if in layer-cake pans or individual tins.
• Invert on wire cooler and let stand until cold.
• Loosen with spatula or knife.