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Chess Cakes

Ingredients

• 1 cocoanut
• 1 pound of sugar
• 2/3 pint of water
• 1/4 pound of butter
• yolks of 7 eggs

Instructions

Peel and grate one cocoanut; boil sugar fifteen minutes in the water; stir in the grated cocoanut and boil fifteen minutes longer. While warm, stir in butter; add the yolks well beaten. Bake in patty-pans with rich paste. If prepared cocoanut is used, take one and a half coffeecupfuls. Fine.

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Source

The White House Cookbook (1887)

Categories

Cakes.