Angel food cake

[alfredo]

My mother used to make it.

https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/angel-food-cake/

My great uncle liked it so much he wrote a song about it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=angel+food+rag&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:4dbac531,vid:sPM--TJay_k,st:0

[justaprogressive]

1. Growing up, only kind of cake I liked.

Mom made me one every birthday.

[Warpy]

2. My mother hated to cook

Cakes came as mixes and when my age got into double digits, I was the one tasked with making them.

I vaguely remember making an angel food cake when I was on my own, beating all those egg whites with a hand held mixer. It was not fun even though the cake turned out OK (didn't have th proper pan, used a Sally Lunn bread poan) and I put it into the same category as puff pastry----great to know what kind of effort goes into it, great to know how to produce it at home during a blizzard, but a decent bakery would do a creditable job on either.

I suppose RA is my own excuse. I have a stand mixer and am quite willing to do other baking, breads and cakes. I jhust balk at anything that requires me to use my hands extensively.