Cocoanut Cake - Alternate Version
From How we cook in Tennessee .., 1906
Serves 12
From Mrs. J. L. Nelson.
Presented as published in 1906. 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 How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 87. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Make a large loaf cake, using any good white cake recipe. The next day after baking, with a sharp 152 HOW WE COOK IN TENNESSEE. See Enochs - Smith Lumber Co. for Mantels and Tile. Bibles, Testaments and Other Popular Books. AGENTS WANTED Liberal Commissions to Hustlers. The Ellis-Martin Co. 306 East Main Street, Jackson, Tenn. knife, slice the cake into four equal slices. If the cake is baked in a round pan it looks prettier when iced. Trim off evenly the brown edges. Make an icing of four cups sugar, one and one-quarter cups cold water. Let cook until it " threads". Pour over four well beaten whites of eggs. Add half teaspoon cream tartar and beat until smooth. Beat into this the grated meat of one very large or two small cocoanuts. Spread thickly between layers of cake, also cover well the top and sides. Lastly sprinkle well with a little dry cocoanut that has been reserved
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