Very Fixe Sponge Cake

Six eggs, 1 cup sugar, tablespoon of lemon juice, grated rind of 1/2 lemon, 1 cup flour. Beat yolks until thick; add lemon juice and grated rind. Beat thoroughly again; add sugar gradually and continue beating. Beat whites until stiff and dry; mix them in and when partly blended fold in flour. Bake in unbuttered funnel pan in slow oven from 1 to 1 1/4 hours.

Lemon Sponge Cake

Beat 6 eggs together thoroughly. Stir in 2 cups of granulated sugar and 2 cups of flour. Beat well. Add 1/2 teaspoon soda dissolved in 1 tablespoon water; juice and grated rind of one large or two small lemons. Beat a long time and bake immediately in quick oven.

Sponge Cake

Beat 2 cups sugar with 4 well-beaten eggs, 1/2 hour. Add 2 1/2 cups flour, 2 heaping teaspoons baking powder, pinch salt, and 1 cup boiling water. Flavor. Bake in moderate oven.

Three-Layer Sponge Cake

Whites of 3 eggs beaten stiff and added to beaten yolks. Add 1 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1/2 teaspoon salt. Beat well; add 1 1/2 cups flour before sifting, 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder, 2-3 cup boiling water added last. Nice with whipped cream filling.

Orange Sponge Cake

One cup powdered sugar, sifted 3 times, added to beaten yolks of 4 eggs. Beat long and hard. Add juice of 1 very large orange, 1 cup flour sifted 3 times, 1 teaspoon baking powder; lastly whites beaten stiff.

Velvet Sponge Cake

Six eggs, 2 cups sugar, 21/2 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 cup boiling water. Beat yolks and sugar together long and hard, using 1/4 of the water gradually to soften the sugar. Then add flour and baking powder after sifting 4 times, and remainder of water. Lastly the well beaten whites. Flavor with lemon.

Sponge Cake

Two teacups sugar, 4 eggs beaten together. Add 2 teacups flour sifted with 2 teaspoons baking powder. Add 2-3 cup boiling water last. Flavor. Sift flour 3 times, and measure after sifting.