Categories: Cake

Ingredients

• White Part
• 6 egg whites beaten into a foam
• pinch salt
• 1 teaspoon cream of tarter
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon almond or vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup flour
• Yellow Part
• 6 Egg yolks beaten until thick and lemon colored
• 1/2 sugar
• 2 tablespoons cold water
• 1 teaspoon lemon or vanilla flavoring
• 1/2 cup cake flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder

Directions

1. Beat egg whites with salt and cream of tarter until they stand in peaks, not dry. Fold in 3/4 cup sugar. Add vanilla. fold in 1/2 cup flour that has been sifter 4 times. place egg white miture in bottom of tube cake pan.

2. Beat egg yolks until light lemon color. add 1/2 cup sugar and beat well. Add 2 Tabalespoons cold water and beat. Mix in 1 teaspoon lemon or vanilla. Add 1/2 cup cake flour that has been mixed with 1 teaspoon baking flour. Pour on top of egg white mixture. Bake at 325 degrees for a little under an hour. Cool inverted pan on a bottle or funnel until cool. Good with a lemon glaze.

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