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      Title: BASIC SPONGE CAKE
 Categories: Mom's best, Cyberealm, Low-cal
      Yield: 10 Servings
 
      1 c  Sifted cake flour
      1 ts Baking powder
    1/4 ts Salt
      3    Eggs, separated
      1 c  Sugar, divided
      2 ts Vanilla
    1/4 c  Water
      2    Egg whites
 
  1. Combine cake flour, baking powder, and salt, stir well and set
  aside.
  
  2. Beat 3 egg yolks in a large mixing bowl at high speed of an
  electric mixer for 1 minute. Gradually add 3/4 cup sugar, beating
  constantly until egg yolks are thick and pale, about 5 minutes. Add
  vanilla and 1/4 cup water, beating at low speed until well blended.
  Add flour mixture to egg yolk mixture beating at low speed until
  blend- ed and set aside.
  
  3. Beat 5 egg whites at room temperature at high speed until foamy.
  Gradually add remaining 1/4 cup sugar, 1 Tablespoon at a time, beating
  until still peaks form. Gently stir one fourth of the egg white
  mixture into the batter. Gently fold in the remaining egg white
  mixture.
  
  4. Pour batter into an ungreased 10 inch tube pan. Bake at 350F for 35
  minutes or until cake springs back when touched lightly in center.
  Invert pan; cool 45 minutes. Loosen cake from sides of pan, remove.
  
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  Nutritional content: 141 calories (10% from fat); fat 1.6 gm; chol 64
  mg; sodium 119 mg.
  
  Source: "Cooking Light" Magazine, March/April 1993
 
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