Savoy or Spunge Cake
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- 12 whole fresh eggs
- sugar
- flour
- lemon peel
Instructions
- Take twelve fresh eggs, put them in the scale, and balance them with sugar.
- Take out half, and balance the other half with flour.
- Separate the whites from the yelks, whip them up very light, then mix them.
- Sift in, first sugar, then flour, till both are exhausted.
- Add some grated lemon peel.
- Bake them in paper cases, or little tin moulds.
- This also makes an excellent pudding, with butter, sugar, and wine for sauce.