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An American Family History
 

from Aunt Pit's Recipe Box

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Orange Sponge Cake

  
 

frome June

  
miles & june
June & Miles Van Dusen
cake

1 1/2 cups flour level
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup orange
salt
5 eggs separated
1/2 teaspoon B.P. [baking powder]

cream sugar, egg yolks

add orange juice

salt & flour sifted 3 or 4 times together next

then add whites beaten stiff with B.P. add last

bake in sponge cake pan 1 hr in slow oven.

 

Sometimes Aunt Pit didn't tell us the exact oven temperatures. Here's a cheat sheet.
Cool oven 250°F
Slow oven 250–350°F
Moderate oven 350–375°F
Hot oven 375–450°F
 

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H O M E
Colonial Maryland
Colonial New England
Colonial Virginia & North Carolina
Colonial Virginia & West Virginia
Quakers & Mennonites
New Jersey Baptists
 
German Lutherans
Ontario Settlers
Ohio Pioneers
Watauga Settlement
Pennsylvania Pioneers
Midwest Pioneers
Californians
Jewish Immigrants

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