Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

by Marion Harland

Rosie’s Cocoanut-Cake.

• 2 cups flour.
• 1½ cups sugar.
• ½ cup butter.
• ½ cup sweet milk.
• 3 eggs.
• 1 teaspoonful cream-tartar.
• ¼ teaspoonful soda.

Sift cream-tartar and soda into the dry flour; cream the butter and sugar; add the beaten eggs, then the milk; lastly the flour. Bake in jelly-cake tins.

Grate one cocoanut; mix with it a cup and a half of white sugar, also the milk of the cocoanut. Set the mixture in the oven until the sugar melts; then spread between the cakes.