Cocoanut Cake
From Mrs. Maclurcan's cookery book, 1899
Serves 3
Presented as published in 1899. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Maclurcan's cookery book (1899) by H. Maclurcan, page 115. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
gs 1 tablespoonful Elliott's Queensland baking powder. Mode. — Mix the arrowroot, sugar, butter and baking powder together, then add the eggs (yolks and whites beaten separately). Bake in patty tins. 697— FEENCH CAKE. 3 tablespoonfuls butter 5 eggs 1^ teaspoonfuls baking soda 2 cups sugar 2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar 1 cup of milk Essence of vanilla. Cakes. Mode — Mix the sugar and butter together and beat to a cream, add the cream of tartar, baking soda, essence, and the eggs beaten thoroughly, then add the milk and a little flour to thicken. Bake in a buttered cake tin for about fifteen minutes. 698— ANGELS CAKES. 1 lb. flour 1 cupful of sugar The whites of 6 eggs \ lb. butter Vanilla essence. Mode. — Eub tLo butter into the flour, add the sugar and a pinch of salt, beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, stir in with the flour and sugar, add suflicient milk to make it moist enough to drop from the spoon ; butter some patty pans and put a spoonful of the mixture into each pan. Bake in a hot oven for nearly twenty minutes. 699— COCOANUT CAKE. 2 cups of sugar 1 cup of butter Yolks of 4 eggs 1^ cups of cold water Whites of 3 eggs 3 tablespoonfuls of Elliott's Grated cococanut Queensland baking 3 cups of flour powder. Mode. — Beat the sugar and butter together for twenty minutes, add the yolks and whites of the eggs beaten well (separately), then the flour, baking powder and water, mix all well together and bake in two sandwich tins ; when cold, ice the tops, then put the other cake on top, ice the whole of it and cover it with cocoanut.
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