Plain Sponge
What you need
- 1½ cups flour
- ¾ cup sugar
- 3 eggs
- 150g butter
Salt, pepper, water and oil don’t count. Mom always had those.
What you do
Beat butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, add eggs one at a time, fold in flour with baking powder. Bake thirty minutes.
How it feels to make
The plainest cake there is and the one you'll actually make most often.
Mom wrote on the back
Eggs one at a time, beating between each. Dump them in together and it curdles.