Recipe - Lemon Coconut Cake

3 cup Cake Flour; sifted
3 teaspoon Baking Powder
One fourth teaspoon Salt
One half cup Butter; or shortening
One half cup Sugar
1 cup Milk
One half teaspoon Lemon extract
4 Egg whites; stiffly beaten

Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder and salt, sift together three
times. Cream butter thoroughly, add sugar gradually, and cream together
until light and fluffy. Add flour, altemately with milk, a small amount at
a time, beating after each addtion until smooth. Add lemon extract. Fold in
egg whites quickly and thoroughly. Bake in three greased 9inch layer pans
in moderate oven 375 degrees F.) 25 to 30 minutes. Spread Coconut Lemon
Filling (see recipe) 1/2inch thick on top of layers and let stand until
filling is set then adjust layers and spread remaining filling on sides of
cake. Sprinkle Coconut generously on sides and top of cake. Decorate top
of cake with a 1inch border of coconut. Kate Smith Collection 1940
Published by General Foods Corp.

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