Some cakes to prepare at home

1-Sponge cake :

Ingredients :

2 eggs
½ cup sugar
1 teaspoon cold water
½ tablespoon lemon juice
1 salt spoon salt
½ cup flour

Method :

 Beat yolks until thick and add sugar gradually. Add water and lemon juice. Sift flour and salt into yolk mixture and beat thoroughly. Fold in the stiffly beaten whites of eggs and bake in a moderate oven.

2- CRISPETTES  :

Ingredients :

2 eggs
½ cup white sugar
½ cup brown sugar
½ cup chopped walnuts or cocoanut
½ cup flour, ½ teaspoon vanilla
½ teaspoon salt

Method :

Beat eggs very light, add sugar and remaining ingredients. Beat well and drop by tablespoonfuls on a buttered pan 2 inches apart. Bake in a moderately hot oven. Always use a tin pan.

3- War cake  :

Ingredients :

1 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
2 cups raisins
⅓ cup fat
¼ teaspoon grated nutmeg
1 teaspoon ground cloves
few grains salt.

Method :

Boil the above ingredients together for three minutes. Let cool. When cold add 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in 2 tablespoons hot water. Add 2 cups flour in which 1 teaspoon baking powder has been sifted. Bake in a moderate oven.

HINT :

If butter is too hard to serve, heat a bowl with boiling water and turn the empty bowl over the butter. This will not waste or impair the taste of the butter.