{"id":16,"date":"2006-06-10T11:16:20","date_gmt":"2006-06-10T16:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/16-the-truth-about-sponge-cake"},"modified":"2013-01-19T17:39:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T22:39:39","slug":"the-truth-about-sponge-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/16-the-truth-about-sponge-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth about Sponge Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sponge Cake\" alt=\"Sponge Cake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/spongecake.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>Sponge cake is similar to angel cake-but different.\u00a0 The recipe for sponge cake calls for whole eggs and angel cake calls for only the egg whites.<\/p>\n<p>During the Renaissance, English and French chefs introduced into their nations&#8217; cuisine something called a &#8220;biscuit.&#8221; These &#8220;biscuits&#8221; were the forerunners of today&#8217;s sponge cake.<\/p>\n<p>The earliest sponge cake recipe recorded in English dates back to 1615.\u00a0 They were reportedly thin and crisp, more like a modern cookie than a cake.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe 18th century is when sponge cakes really began looking like they do today.\u00a0 Eggs, whipped to full fluffiness, were used to make pastries rise . . . and thus the modern sponge cake was born.<\/p>\n<p>The name &#8220;ladyfingers&#8221; was originally applied to okra, not the little sponge cakes with which we associate the name today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sponge cake is similar to angel cake-but different.\u00a0 The recipe for sponge cake calls for whole eggs and angel cake calls for only the egg whites. During the Renaissance, English and French chefs introduced into their nations&#8217; cuisine something called a &#8220;biscuit.&#8221; These &#8220;biscuits&#8221; were the forerunners of today&#8217;s sponge cake. The earliest sponge cake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}