Cocoanut Cake

Ingredients

• Two cups sugar
• one cup butter
• yolks of five eggs and whites of two
• one cup milk
• three and a half teaspoonfuls soda
• one teaspoonful cream tartar sifted into the flour
• three and a half cups flour

Method

1. 1

   Bake in layers.

2. 2

   Make the filling of any good frosting into which ground cocoanut has been strewed.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Landmarks club cook book (1903) by The Landmarks club, Los Angeles, Calif., page 99. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Two cups sugar, half cup butter and cream well. Add two well beaten eggs, one cup milk with one teaspoon soda, two and a half cups of flour into which has been sifted two tea- spoonfuls of cream tartar. Add two cups seeded raisins sprinkled with one-half a cup of the flour from the above measure, and one teaspoon each cinnamon and cloves. Bake about one hour. Florence Collins Porter. CHOCOLATE CAKE. Quarter pound butter, quarter pound powdered sugar, quar- ter pound grated chocolate, two and a half ounces flour, three eggs, one teaspoonful baking powder. Beat butter to a cream, add sugar, beat well, add eggs one at a time, add flour and baking powder, and lastly add chocolate. Bake at once in mod- erate oven. Beatrice Wigmore. 166 LANDMARKS CLUB COOK BOOK. chocolate; NUT cake:. One and a half cups sugar, half cup butter, two-thirds cup sweet milk, one and two-thirds cups flour, four eggs, one tea- spoonful baking powder, two squares Baker’s chocolate. Put the chocolate in the oven long enough to melt it. To it when melted add five tablespoons of boiling water, mix thoroughly and add to cake mixture. Lastly add a large cup of chopped walnut meats, having first dried them lightly with flour. Bake in a moderate oven and in a shallow pan, making cake not more than an inch and a half or two inches thick. Ice with white icing. Mrs. Emmeline Childs. COCOANUT CAICE:. Two cups sugar, one cup butter, yolks of five eggs and whites of two, one cup milk, three and a half cups flour, one and a half teaspoonfuls soda, one teaspoonful cream tartar sifted into the flour

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