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Cocoanut Made as Jelly Cake

Mrs. Ira Metcalf.

One cup of butter, three cups of sugar, one cup of milk, five cups of flour, six teaspoons of Cook's Friend baking powder, whites of eight eggs; bake in jelly cake pans; for dressing to put between, take the whites of six eggs beaten stiff, half a pound of dessicated cocoanut, and one cup of powdered sugar.

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