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For Filling (Teaspoonful vanilla extract)

/ 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract 1 white of egg 1 cupful water ½ cupful chopped cocoanut 1/4 teaspoonful salt 1 teaspoonful Crisco 1 cupful sugar Pinch cream of tartar For cake. Cream Crisco and sugar together, sift the flour, baking powder, and salt, and add alternately with the beaten yolks of eggs and milk. Beat thoroughly, then add stiffly beaten whites of eggs and flavoring and mix gently. Grease layer tins with Crisco then flour them and divide mixture into three portions. Bake in a moderate oven twenty minutes. For filling. Boil water and sugar together, add Crisco and cream of tartar, and boil until it forms a soft ball when tried in cold water, or 240° F. Beat white of egg to stiff froth, add salt, then pour in syrup gradually, add vanilla and beat until thick and cold. Spread on cake and sprinkle over with cocoanut.

Sufficient for three layers.