posted by Mai 01-27-103 9:46 AM
A Different Angel Food Cake
1 1/3 c Cake flour
1 3/4 c Sugar
3/4 ts Salt
1 3/4 c Egg whites -- (about 12 egg-whites)
1 tb Fresh lemon juice
1 1/2 ts Vanilla
6 Egg yolks
2 tb Grated orange rind Strawberries -- garnish
Position oven rack in lower third of oven. Heat oven to 375°.
Mix 3 tbsp flour and 3 tbsp sugar in medium-size bowl. Sift remaining flour, 3/4 cup sugar and salt, twice, onto waxed paper.
Beat whites and juice in large bowl at medium speed until soft peaks form. Gradually beat in remaining sugar until glossy peaks form. Beat in vanilla. Add yolks and rind to flour mixture in medium-size bowl. Beat at high speed until pale yellow and ribbon forms when beater is lifted, 3 minutes.
Fold sifted flour mixture into egg whites in 3 additions. Remove a third of whites mixture; fold into yolk mixture.
Alternately spoon yellow and white batters into ungreased 10-inch tube pan. Run thin, long knife through batter, swirling batter together.
Bake in 375° oven for 35-40 minutes, until golden and wooden pick inserted in top tests clean. In vert pan onto bottle to cool. Run thin knife around edges; remove cake from pan.