181 Cocoanut Cakes
Beat the whites of eight eggs, to a stiff froth, then stir in half a pound of sifted loaf sugar; it should be stirred in very gradually, and beaten eight or ten minutes, then add half a pound of grated cocoanut, the brown part should be cut off before it is grated. Put in a table spoonful of the milk of the cocoanut, if you have it, if not it will do without, drop it on buttered pie plates, several inches apart, the drops should be about the size of a cent. Bake them in a oven about twenty minutes.