Cream together one pound sugar, half a pound butter. Beat eight eggs
lightly without separating. Stir them gradually into the butter and
sugar. Sift in one pound of flour, beat all light, then put in an even
teaspoonful of soda dissolved in half a teacupful of sweet milk, two
even teaspoonfuls cream of tartar dissolved in the same quantity of
milk. Season with lemon or vanilla. For the icing, nine tablespoonfuls
of water and one pound sugar; boil until it glistens. Beat the whites
of four eggs to a stiff froth, stir into the boiling icing, then add
half a pound of grated cocoanut. Spread the icing between the cakes
and on the top.--_Miss S._
ANGEL'S BREAD.
_A variety of Cocoanut Cake._
1 cup butter.
2 cups sugar.
3 cups flour.
Whites of eight eggs.
½ cup sweet milk.
½ teaspoonful soda, 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar, stirred in the
milk.
Flavor with vanilla.
Bake in jelly-cake pans.
1 grated cocoanut.
Spread top and bottom of cake with icing, then put on the cocoanut,
and so on till your cake is large as you wish. Ice the whole cake, and
sprinkle on cocoanut. Make the icing, three whites to one pound of
pulverized sugar, with juice of one lemon.--_Mrs. D. R._
CLAY CAKE.
3 cups sugar.
1 cup butter.
4 cups flour.
1 cup sweet milk.
6 eggs.
1 teaspoonful soda in the milk.
1 teaspoonful cream of tartar in the flour.
Flavor with vanilla. Bake it in layers.
_Icing for the Cake._--Beat the whites of four eggs into a froth, and
add nine teaspoonfuls of pulverized sugar to each egg, flavoring it
with vanilla. Then grate up two large cocoanuts, and after icing each
layer, sprinkle grated cocoanut on it. Put the layers on each other as
in making jelly cake.--_Mrs. L. W._
_Cocoanut Cake._
2 cups powdered sugar.
½ cup butter.
3 eggs.
1 cup milk.
3 cups flour.
2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar.
1 teaspoonful soda.
Bake in jelly-cake pans.
Filling: one grated cocoanut; to half-pound of this add the whites of
three eggs beaten to a froth, one cup of powdered sugar; lay this
between the layers of the cake; mix with the other half of the
cocoanut four tablespoonfuls powdered sugar, and strew thickly on top
of the cake.--_Mrs. D. C. K._
_One, Two, Three, Four Cocoanut Cake._
1 cup butter.
2 cups sugar.
3 cups flour.
Whites of 4 eggs.
1 teaspoonful cream of tartar.
½ teaspoonful soda.
½ small cocoanut, stirred in at the last.--_Mrs. D. C. K._
_Cocoanut Cake._
1 teacup of butter.
3 teacups of sugar.
3½ teacups of flour.
Whites of 10 eggs.
½ cup sweet milk, with one teaspoon not quite full of soda.
2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar.
Essence of lemon.
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