Cocoanut Cake

Ingredients

• half a cupful of butter
• one cupful of sugar
• two cupfuls of flour
• half a cupful of milk
• half a cupful of desiccated cocoanut
• one cupful of freshly grated fruit
• the whites of three eggs
• the juice of one lemon
• one teaspoonful of cream-of-tartar
• one level teaspoonful of soda

Method

1. 1

   Soak the cocoanut in milk.

2. 2

   Cream butter and sugar, add lemon juice, then milk and cocoanut.

3. 3

   Fold in beaten egg whites and flour mixed with soda and cream-of-tartar.

4. 4

   Pour into pans and bake for half an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 403. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cocoanut Cake. Half a cupful of butter, one cupful of sugar, two cupf uls of flour, half a cupful of milk, half a cupful of desiccated cocoanut, or one cupful of freshly grated fruit, the whites of three eggs, the juice of one lemon, one teaspoonful of cream-of-tartar, and one level teaspoonful of soda. Soak the cocoanut in the milk. Beat the butter to a cream ; beat the sugar into it ; add the lemon juice, and beat two minutes longer. Now add the milk and cocoa- nut, and beat well. Then add the whites of the eggs, beaten to a stiff froth. Add the flour, in which the soda and cream-of-tartar have been mixed. Beat quickly, and pour into two shallow pans. Bake for half an hour in a moderate oven. CAKE. 765 Ice-cream Cake. For the cake proper there will be required half a cup- ful of butter, one cupful and a half of sugar, two cupfuls of flour

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