Sift the 1st ingredients together. Beat the butter and powdered sugar, adding the yolks of four eggs one by one to this. Beat well. Mix it well with the sieved flour.
Heat a thick bottom vessel. Sauté 1/4cup sugar continuously until reddish brown . Add boiled water and remove from fire when the sugar solution thickens. Allow it to cool.
Beat the sugar syrup. Add it to the cake mixture and mix well.
Beat the egg white well with the vanilla essence. Pour it into the cake mixture and beat all the ingredients together. Bake the cake in a preheated oven
at 3500C, for one hour.