Rub to a cream butter and pulverized sugar. Add gradually eggs, milk and flour, adding baking-powder in last sifting. Bake in layers.
One grated cocoanut and all of its milk, to half of which add the beaten whites and one cup of powdered sugar. Lay this between the layers. Mix with the other half of the grated cocoanut five tablespoons of powdered sugar and strew thickly on top of cake, which has been previously iced.
The International Jewish Cook Book (1919).