1 small cup of sweet cream.
Nearly 5 cups prepared flour.
Vanilla flavoring, and liquid cochineal.
Stir the cream (into which it is safe to put a pinch of soda) into the butter and sugar. Beat five minutes with “the Dover,” until the mixture is like whipped cream. Flavor with vanilla, and put in by turns the whites and the flour. Color a fine pink with cochineal. Bake in four jelly-cake tins. When cold, spread with,
Filling.
1½ cocoanuts, pared and grated.
Whites of 4 eggs, whisked stiff.
1½ cups powdered sugar.
2 teaspoonfuls best rose-water.