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- Type
- Cake
- Course
- Dessert , tea
- Place of origin
- United Kingdom
- Main ingredients
- Wheat flour , sugar , egg whites , baking powder
- Variations
- Rice flour
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Sponge cake is a light cake made with egg whites, flour and sugar, sometimes leavened with baking powder. Some sponge cakes do not contain egg yolks, such as angel food cake, but most do.
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 poet Gervase Markham, The English Huswife (1615). The cake was more like a cracker: thin and crisp.
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