Ingredients:
6 egg yolks
2 cups powdered white sugar
3/4 cups butter
1 cup sweet milk
3 1/2 cup flour
1 level tea-spoon soda
2 tea-spoon cream tartar
4 eggs whites
ICING:
1 cocoa-nut
2 eggs whites
1 tea-cup powdered sugar
Preparation:
- To the well-beaten yolks of six eggs, add two cups powdered white sugar, three-fourths cups butter, one of sweet milk, three and a half of flour, one level tea-spoon soda and two of cream tartar, white of four eggs well beaten; bake in jelly-cake pans.
- For icing, grate one cocoa-nut, beat whites of two eggs, and add one tea-cup powdered sugar; mix thoroughly with the grated cocoa-nut, and spread evenly on the layers of cake when they are cold.
Nettie Miller, Columbus
