Cocoanut Cake

Ingredients

• one and one third pints sugar
• half pint butter
• four eggs
• two pints grated and dried cocoanut
• pint milk
• three teaspoons baking powder
• two quarts flour

Method

1. 1

   Cream sugar and butter, beat in eggs.

2. 2

   Soak cocoanut in milk until soft, add baking powder, and stir into the mixture.

3. 3

   Work in flour and bake in a quick oven in Turk's Head molds.

4. 4

   Make icing by beating egg whites with sugar and lemon extract, put on cake while warm, and sprinkle with grated cocoanut.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 50. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cocoanut Cake — Cream one and one third pints sugar and half pint butter, and beat into the cream four eggs previously whipped to a light cream. Soak two pints grated and dried cocoanut in pint milk until soft, add three teaspoons baking powder, and stir into above, beatijig thoroughly for some time. Now work in two quarts flour

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