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Cocoanut Sponge Cake

ingredients-One teacupful of granulated sugar, two teacupfuls of flour, a tiny pinch of salt, two ounces of butter, three eggs, a large teaspoonful of baking powder, a little dessicated cocoanut and jam.

Method-Whisk the eggs to a cream in a large basin. Cream the butter and add it to the eggs, also the sugar and salt and whisk for five minutes; then gradually stir in the flour and lastly the baking powder.

Grease two cake tins, put in each a thin layer of the mixture and bake for fifteen minutes in a moderate oven.

When the cakes are nicely set remove from the oven and take out of tins and place on a sieve to cool.

Spread with jam and press together and scatter cocoanut over the top; then cut up into fingers, diamond shapes, etc.