Cocoanut Cake

Ingredients

• One pound of sugar
• half a pound of butter
• a wine-glass of brandy
• one cocoanut grated
• six eggs
• three-quarters of a pound of flour

Method

1. 1

   Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, add the brandy, then the grated coconut and eggs, and finally the flour.

2. 2

   Bake in one cake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The economical cook book (1905) by Sara T. Paul, page 114. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

One pound of sugar and half a pound of butter stirred to a cream, add a wine-glass of brandy, beat it well in, then one oocoanut grated, six eggs and three-quarters of a pound of flour Bake in one cake. * Ponnd-cako. One pound of butter, the same of sugar, same of flour, ten eggSy third of a small nutmeg grated, and the grated peel of half ft lemon. Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, add the yolks of the eggs beaten light, then beat the whites to a stiff fh>th and add them alternately with the flour, flavor, put in a deep round pan and bake in a moderate oven. Try with a broom splint. * Oiaage-cake. Seven eggs, their weight in butter, flour and sugar ; mix like pound-cake. When the sugar and butter are creamed, stir in them the rind of two and the juice of three fine large tart oranges, beat well, add th« yolks of the eggs and the floor aHei- 286 COOKER T FROM: EXPERIENCE. DAtelj with the whites beaten to a stiff firoth ; dissolve a small teaspoon even bjl\ of soda in another of hot water, and sdr ia the last thing. Bake all in one large oake. This eake most be well beaten together. Dutch Cake. Half a pound of butter, the same of sugar, three-quarters of a pound of flour, four yolks and two whites of eggs beaten light. Stir together like pound-cake, spread it in shallow pans, and sprinkle sifted sugar thickly over the top^ and cinnamon over the sugar. Bake in a quick oven. Cinnamon-cake. Four cups of flour, two of sugar, one of butter, one of sour oream or buttermilk, three eggs, one teaspoonful of soda. Spriii* kle cinnamon and sugar over the top while hot. Bake ia shallow tins. * Cocoanut-cake, Ho. 2. Two cups of sugar, one of butter, four of flour, half an one of milk, the whites of six eggs

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