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Havana Cream Cake

8 ounces of fresh grated cocoanut. 1 pound of sugar. 4 large oranges. 2 lemons. 4 ounces of butter. 6 yolks and 2 whole eggs.

Grate the rinds and squeeze the juice of the oranges and lemons into the sugar and bring it to a boil, making a flavored syrup. Throw in the butter, then the cocoanut, and boil 5 minutes. Stir in the eggs and cook slowly till thick. Spread between layers of snow cake.

Then they are strange the way they exclaim when they burn up a cake in the stove. Once we heard a lady sing, "Gee woicks gee whilikens, the dordrotted thing's gone blackernaniggerbaby!" That was at the toll house at Shippingsport near Louisville, as we were going through the locks twenty-seven years ago last anniversary, and anybody could know it was a cake burnt up by the black smell that came across the canal. Now one of us fellows would only have remarked dam kind of quietly and lighted our pipe. In fact, you have to bake these white cake sheets with scarcely any color at all to look well with colored creams between and icing on top.