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Sponge cake
.jpg) Sponge cake (Victoria sponge) at an English village fête baking competition (2014) | |
| Type | Cake |
|---|---|
| Course | Dessert, tea |
| Region or state | United Kingdom |
| Main ingredients | Wheat flour, sugar, egg whites, baking powder |
| Variations | Rice flour |
Sponge cake is a light cake made with eggs, flour and sugar,[1] sometimes leavened with baking powder.[2] Some sponge cakes do not contain egg yolks, like angel food cake, but most do. Sponge cakes, leavened with beaten eggs, originated during the Renaissance, possibly in Spain.[3]
The sponge cake is thought to be one of the first non-yeasted cakes, and the earliest attested sponge cake recipe in English is found in a book by the British poet Gervase Markham, The English Huswife, Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues Which Ought to Be in a Complete Woman (1615).[4] The cake was more like a cracker: thin and crisp.
Sponge cakes became the cake recognised today when bakers started using beaten eggs as a rising agent in the mid-18th century. The Victorian creation of baking powder by the British food manufacturer Alfred Bird in 1843 allowed the addition of butter, resulting in the creation of the Victoria sponge. Sponge cakes have become snack cakes via the Twinkie.
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary
- ^ "Sponge cake". BBC. Retrieved 2019-11-19.
- ^ Castella, Krystina (2010). A World of Cake: 150 Recipes for Sweet Traditions From Cultures Around the World, pp. 6–7. ISBN 978-1-60342-576-6.
- ^ Davidson, Alan (2002). The Penguin Companion to Food. Penguin Books. p. 147.
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