Cocoanut Cake

Ingredients

• A quarter of a pound of sifted sugar
• two ounces of butter
• one eggcupful of milk
• a quarter of a pound of flour
• the grated peel of half a lemon
• one egg
• two ounces of grated cocoanut
• enough carbonate of soda to cover a threepenny bit

Method

1. 1

   Mix the sugar with the butter beaten to a cream, add the grated lemon, milk, and the egg beaten separately.

2. 2

   Stir all well together, add the soda, then the flour by degrees, and lastly the cocoanut.

3. 3

   Line a tin with buttered paper, and bake for twenty minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The child's cookery book (1900) by Louisa S. Tate, page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cocoanut Cake A quarter of a pound of sifted sugar, two ounces of butter, one eggcupful of milk, a quarter of a pound of flour, the grated peel ot half a lemon, one egg, two ounces of grated cocoanut, and enough carbonate of soda to cover a threepenny bit

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