Lowney’s – Cold Water Sponge cake

Ingredients

• 6 eggs
• 3 cups sugar (approx. 600g)
• grated rind and juice of ½ lemon
• ¾ cup cold water (180ml)
• 3 cups flour (approx. 360g)
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt

Method

1. Beat yolks of eggs until lemon-colored and thick; add sugar, rind and juice of lemon, water, flour in which salt and baking powder has been sifted.
2. When well blended, cut and fold in the beaten whites of eggs.
3. Bake in two pans thirty to forty minutes.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard