Gone with the Wind Cake

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon double-acting baking powder 
• 1.8 cups cake flour sifted
• 3  egg whites 
• 3  egg yolks 
• 0.3 teaspoon salt 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 
• 0.8 cup water cold
• 1.5 cups sugar white

Equipment

• frying pan
• oven

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Beat cold water and egg yolks together until mixture makes 1 quart--at least 10 minutes. Slowly add sugar and vanilla to egg yolk mixture, beating for at least 7 minutes more.
3. Sift the cake flour, baking powder, and salt together. Fold into the egg yolk mixture.
4. Beat egg whites until medium-stiff peaks form. Fold one third of the egg white mixture into the batter to lighten; fold in remaining egg whites.
5. Pour batter into an ungreased tube pan.
6. Bake in preheated oven until cake springs back when lightly touched with a fingertip, about 50 minutes. Turn upside down to cool in pan for 1 hour. Loosen sides and coax from pan.