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FRUIT SPONGE CAKE
Photo: David Holifield

FRUIT SPONGE CAKE

9 ingredients 8 steps internet_archive
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

761
Calories
22g
Protein
7g
Fat
154g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 6 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Banana 1 medium (118g) 105
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Orange 1 medium (131g) 62
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon lemon
  • 3 cups flour
  • two cups to one of juice
  • 7 eggs
  • two layers
  • 1 minced orange
  • 1 banana -- sliced
  • two eggs to each cup of sugar

Directions

1

7 eggs. 2 teaspoons baking powder,

2

1^ cups sugar. 1 teaspoon lemon and va-

3

3 cups flour. nilla.

4

l^ teacup cold water. Bake in two layers.

5

1 minced orange. 1 can pineapple chopped fine.

6

1 banana — sliced. y% cup sugar.

7

Juice 1/^ lemon.

8

Ice on top with the following icing: Take syrup of pineapple, boil with sugar, allowing two cups to one of juice, break two eggs to each cup of sugar, beat whiles stiff, when syrup cooks thick and threads, pour gradually over the eggs ; cook over steam to the right consistency to ice cake. Delicious.

By Wilson, Mary Elizabeth Lyles, 1860-1924 · Recipe sourced from internet_archive

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