Aunt Polly's Sponge Cake

🥘 Ingredients

• eggs 6 separated
• sugar 1 ½ cups
• flour 1 ½ cups
• cream of tartar 1 tsp
• hot water 6 Tbsp
• salt 1 dash

1. 1

   eggs sugar flour (measured after sifting) cream of tartar hot water salt
2. 2

   Beat egg yolks well, put in 1/2 of sugar and beat well again. Add hot water and flour. Beat egg whites until stiff, add cream of tartar, salt and rest of sugar. Fold egg white mixture into egg yolk mixture. Bake in an ungreased angel food pan at 375 degrees for about 45 minutes or until done.