Eleanor Roosevelt's Pink Cloud on Angel Food Cake

from "Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride" by Pam Munoz Ryan

 

 

Angel Food Cake

1 cup cake flour (sift before measuring)

1 1/4 cups egg whites (10 or 12)

1 1/2 teaspoons cream of tartar

1 1/2 cups sugar

1 teaspoon salt

Sift flour at least twice.  Bat egg whites with beater until foamy; add cream of tartar and 1 cup of sugar gradually.  Continue beating until egg whites stand up in peaks.  Add almond flavoring. 

 

 

Sift remaining 1/2 cup of sugar with salt and flour, and very carefully fold into egg whites.  Bake in tube pan in 375 degree oven for 30 to 35 minutes.

 Whipped Cream and Strawberries (Pink Clouds)

1 pint strawberries

1/2 pint heavy cream, whipped

1/2 cup sugar

Crush berries with sugar.  Let sand 30 minutes.  Carefully fold berries into whipped cream.  Spoon on top of angel food cake.