Rolled Cherry Upside Down Cake

Directions

1. 1
   Preheat oven to 350F.
2. 2
   Melt butter in a oblong shallow cake pan; add half the sugar and cover with cherries mixed with the remaining sugar and flour.
3. 3
   Set in oven to heat while preparing cake batter.
4. 4
   Beat egg whites stiffly and carefully fold in sugar and flour, which have been well mixed.
5. 5
   Add vanilla and salt; fold in egg yolks which have been beaten until light and lemon colored.
6. 6
   Spread cake batter over hot cherries and bake for 30 minutes or until cake springs back when gently pressed with fingertips.
7. 7
   Let cool one minute; turn out, upside down, on a waxed paper dusted with confectioners' sugar.
8. 8
   Roll up at once like a jelly roll.
9. 9
   Cool until just warm, slice and serve with a creamy custard sauce or whipped cream.
10. 10
    This dessert does not improve with standing.