Cocoanut Cake. Recipe No. 1.
Reading edition
Take: Flour, 4 cupfuls; sugar, 3 cupfuls; butter, 1 cupful; soda, 1 teaspoonful; cream-tartar, 2 teaspoonfuls; grated cocoanut, 3 cupfuls; eggs, whites of 3; lemon, grated rind of 1.
Mix together three cupfuls of sugar; one of butter; the whites of three eggs; a level teaspoonful of soda; four cupfuls of flour, with two teaspoonfuls of cream-tartar sifted into it; three cupfuls of grated cocoanut; the grated rind of one lemon, and a gill of milk. Stir thoroughly, and bake in a moderate oven.
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