Sponge Cake Chinese Style

Name: Sponge Cake Chinese Style (Ma la kao)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 cup lard or shortening; 1 cup lard or shortening; 4 pieces vanilla extract; 1 piece white paper; 8 eggs; 3 cups flour (cake flour); 3 cups flour (cake flour); 1-½ cups milk; 2 cups sugar; 1 tablespoons baking powder; 1 teaspoon baking soda

Ma la kao

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

8 eggs
3 cups flour (cake flour)
2 cups

Asia
Taiwan
Cake
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Beat the eggs in a large bowl until very stiff (about 5 minutes).
Add the sugar and flour beat it again about 10 minutes, then add baking powder and milk, mix it well.
Dissolve 1 tablespoon baking soda into 1 tablespoon water. Add this into #2 mixture, then add lard (or shortening) and vanilla extract, mix throughly.
Place the white paper in