Cocoanut Cake. Recipe No. 3.
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Take: Sugar, 1½ cupfuls; butter, ½ cupful; eggs, 3; milk, ½ cupful; flour, 2 cupfuls; cream-tartar, 1 teaspoonful; soda, ¼ teaspoonful; cocoanut, 1; fine white sugar, 1½ cupfuls.
Stir one and a half cupfuls of sugar and half a cupful of butter to a cream; beat up three eggs and add them, together with half a cupful of new milk; then add two cupfuls of flour into which a teaspoonful of cream-tartar and a quarter of a teaspoonful of soda have been sifted. Stir together well, and bake in jelly-cake tins. Mix one cocoanut (grated) and its milk with a cupful and a half of white sugar; set this in the oven till the sugar melts, and spread between the layers of cake.
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