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Cocoanut Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 1/2 cupful of butter
• 2 cupfuls of sugar
• 1 cupful of milk
• 5 eggs
• 1 teaspoonful of soda
• 2 teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar
• 4 cups of sifted flour
• 1 small cocoanut grated

Instructions

Eggs, beaten to a stiff froth; soda and cream of tartar, stirred into flour. Beat the butter and sugar until very light; to which add the beaten yolks, then the milk, the beaten whites of eggs, then the flour by degrees. After beating all well together, add cocoanut. Line the cake-pans with paper well buttered, fill rather more than half full and bake in a moderate oven. Spread over the top a thin frosting, sprinkled thickly with grated cocoanut.

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Source

The White House Cookbook (1887).