Cocoanut Cake

Ingredients

• 6 oz. of butter
• 1 lb. of sugar
• 1 lb. of flour
• 1 large cupful of milk
• 1 teaspoonful of soda
• 2 of cream of tartar
• eight ounces of white sugar
• whites of two eggs
• grated cocoanut

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter into the flour; add the sugar and cream of tartar; well whisk the eggs; dissolve the soda in a little warm water, adding these to other ingredients.

2. 2

   Bake in layers as for jelly cake.

3. 3

   Icing to place between the layers: well whisk the eggs and sugar, add the grated cocoanut and place between the layers.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Ideal cook book (1899) by Anne Clarke, page 94. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cocoanut Cake—Ingredients—6 oz. of butter, 1 lb. of sugar, I Ib. of flour, 1 large cupful of milk, 1 teaspoonful of soda, 2 of — cream of tartar. Rub the butter into the flour ; add the sugar and cream of tartar ; well whisk the eggs; dissolve the soda in a little warm water, adding these to other ingredients. Bake in layers as fur jelly cake. Icing to place between the layers : —eight ounces of white sugar, whites of two eggs. Well whisk the eggs and sugar, add the grated cocoanut

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