Placerville Angel Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. (approximately) sugar
1 c. (approximately) flour
1 tsp. cream of tartar
12 hen eggs
1 tsp. vanilla

Preparation

Take 1 pound soda box, cut 2 1/2 inches from bottom and fill with sugar.
Sift sugar 7 times.
Fill your \"measuring box\" with flour and 1 teaspoon of cream of tartar.
Sift this mixture 7 times.
Separate the 12 eggs and beat egg whites with a metal whisk into a stiff froth.
Beat into the egg whites the sugar and flour, a little at a time (3 spoonfuls of sugar, then flour) until all is gone.
Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla.