Chrysanthemum Cake

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Ingredients

1/2 pint butter
1 pint sugar
1 1/2 pints flour sifted with the baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
grated rind of 1 orange
1/2 pint milk
whites of 8 eggs
cochineal
fine bread crumbs

Icing

1/2 cup powdered sugar
whites of 2 eggs
freshly grated cocoanut

Instructions

Stir butter and sugar with your right hand to a light white cream; beat the whites to a stiff froth, add them to the creamed butter and mix well together with a spoon; add alternately the flour and milk; then add the grated orange peel and a few drops of cochineal, to color the mixture a delicate pink; butter 3 large jelly tins, dust them with fine bread crumbs, fill in the mixture in equal parts and bake in a medium hot oven; when done remove the cakes from the pans and lay them aside to cool; mix the powdered sugar with the beaten whites; spread this icing over the layers and sprinkle them thickly with freshly grated cocoanut; lay the layers over one another, cover the top with pink icing and sprinkle over some cocoanut.