Coconut Cake
⅓ cup butter
2 eggs
1¾ cups flour after it is sifted
¼ teaspoon of salt
1 cup sugar
½ cup milk
2½ teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
Cream the butter and sugar, add the eggs, one at a time, and beat until light. Sift the flour, salt and baking powder and stir into the mixture, alternating with the milk. Add the vanilla.
Bake in two layers in a moderate oven for twenty minutes. Ice with coconut icing.