LAYER CAKE
1 cup sugar.
½ cup water.
2 eggs.
2 teaspoonfuls baking-powder.
½ cup butter.
2½ cups flour.
Teaspoonful vanilla.
Rub the butter to a cream in a deep bowl, and put in the sugar a little at a time, and rub this till it, too, creams. Then put in the beaten yolks of the eggs, and then the water. Beat the egg-whites well, and fold in half, then add the flour, in which you have mixed and sifted the baking-powder, and then put in the vanilla and the rest of the eggs.
Divide in two layers, or in three if the tins are small, and bake till a light brown.
DANISH CAKES
5 oz. flour.
¼ lb. butter.
2 oz. brown sugar.
A few drops of vanilla.
1 egg.
1 oz. cocoanut.
Rub butter in flour, add sugar and vanilla, mix with yolk of egg, roll out and cut out with round cutter, brush tops over with the white of egg, sprinkle over with cocoanut, and bake in moderate oven about quarter of an hour.
COCOANUT CAKES
¼ lb. cocoanut.
Whites of 2 eggs.
2 oz. castor sugar.
Beat whites to a stiff froth, then add the sugar and cocoanut, drop on a greased tin, and bake in a quick oven.