Ann's Strawberry Angel-Food Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup sifted unbleached white flour
• 1 cup finely ground date sugar or 1 cup superfine sugar
• egg white
• 1 14 teaspoons cream of tartar
• 1 12 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 12 cup strawberries
• thinly sliced fresh or 12 cup frozen strawberries

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350F
2. Sift together flour and 1/2 cup sugar into a large bowl.
3. Set aside.
4. In another bowl, beat egg whites until foamy.
5. Add cream of tartar; continue beatin until soft peaks form.
6. Add remaining 1/2 cup sugar, 2 Tbsp at a time, beating until stiff peaks form.
7. Fold in flour-sugar mixture, 1/2 cup at a time.
8. Fold in vanilla and strawberries.
9. Pour batter into an ungreased 10-inch tube pan, spreading evenly and deflating any large air pockets with a knife.
10. Bake 40 minutes, or until cake is lightly browned and springy.
11. Invert pan and let cake cool 40 minutes.
12. Remove cake from pan and set on a serving plate.