Rosie’s Cocoanut-Cake.
2 cups flour.
1½ cups sugar.
½ cup butter.
½ cup sweet milk.
3 eggs.
1 teaspoonful cream-tartar.
¼ teaspoonful soda.
Sift cream-tartar and soda into the dry flour; cream the butter and sugar; add the beaten eggs, then the milk; lastly the flour. Bake in jelly-cake tins.
Grate one cocoanut; mix with it a cup and a half of white sugar, also the milk of the cocoanut. Set the mixture in the oven until the sugar melts; then spread between the cakes.