Nanny's Sponge Cake

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Introduction

My oldest and best family heirloom recipe

Ingredients

Serves: 6

6 eggs (never less than 12 oz)
14 ounces sugar (the same weight as the eggs)
7 ounces cake flour (or all purpose flour - half the weight of the eggs)
1 pinch of salt

Method

Nanny's Sponge Cake is a community recipe submitted by Community and has not been tested by Nigella.com so we are not able to answer questions regarding this recipe.

Separate eggs, beat yolks and sugar well, then leave standing until bubbles appear, while whisking the egg whites until stiff.
Fold egg whites into the sugar and yolk mixture, then fold in the flour and pinch of salt.
Pour into a well greased tube tin (we always used a deep Gugelhopf type tin) and bake in the centre of a 180 degree oven for about 1 hour.

Additional Information

This recipe does NOT work in a fan oven, it will fail if there is any draft! I do know it has been made very successfully in a gas oven. It is VERY popular with men who don't like very sweet cakes. I have always used this recipe to "test" a new oven, if it works then I know the oven is good for temperature!