Cocoanut Cream Cake

Ingredients

• put in a saucepan, 1 cupful of milk
• 1 cupful of sugar
• 1/2 cupful of cocoanut
• A piece of butter the size of a nutmeg.
• a heaping tablespoonful of cornstarch, moistened with a tablespoonful of milk.
• add the beaten yolk of an egg.

Method

1. 1

   Mix milk, sugar, cocoanut, and butter in a saucepan and bring to a boil.

2. 2

   Add cornstarch mixture and stir until thickened.

3. 3

   Remove from fire, add egg yolk, cool, and spread over cake layers.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Luncheons (1902) by Mary Ronald, page 67. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

COCOANUT CKEAM-CAKE Use any cake mixture for the layers. The orange-cake mixtures are recommended. j\Iake a filling as follows : put in a saucepan, 1 cupful of milk, 1 cupful of sugar, |- cupful of cocoanut, A piece of butter the size of a nutmeg. ]\Iix them and let them come to the boiling-point, then add slowly a heaping tablespoonful of cornstarch, moistened with a tablespoonful of milk, and stir until the mixture is thick- ened. Remove it from the fire and add the beaten yolk of an egg.

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