Baking Lessons from Grandma - Baking Sponge Cake

What My Grandmother Taught Me About Baking—and Life

Bigmom gave her granddaughter a lasting taste for salt air, rockers, porches and feathery sponge cake.

By Abigail Thomas

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Bigmom gave Abigail Thomas a lasting taste for salt air, rockers, porches and feathery sponge cake.

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