Recipe - Homemade Coconut Pound Cake

2 Sticks butter
3 cup Sugar
3 cup Flour
5 Eggs; separated
1 cup Buttermilk
One fourth teaspoon Soda; dissolved in
1 tablespoon water
1 teaspoon Vanilla
One half teaspoon Butter flavoring
1 cup Coconut

Cream butter and sugar. Add egg yolks and beat until blended. Sift flour 3
times, add to creamed mixture; mix well. Add buttermilk, flavorings and
coconut; mix. Beat egg whites and add to batter along with dissolved soda;
fold in (do not beat). Pour into greased and floured tube or bundt pan.
Bake at 200 for about 2One half hours or until a toothpick inserted comes out
clean.

MRS JAMES MCCARLEY (MONTIE)

HELENA, AR

From the book High Cotton Cookin', Marvell Academy Mothers Assn, Marvell,
AR 72366, ISBN 0918544149, downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.