Ingredients

1/2 C. butter
1/2 C. sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. soda
1/2 C. molasses
1 tsp. ginger
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. salt
1 1/2 C. whole meal flour
1/2 C. cold water
2 C. freshly grated or moist packed coconut

Cooking Instructions

Cream butter and sugar well, add eggs and beat all together. Dissolve soda in molasses and add to first mixture. Mix and sift remaining dry ingredients, adding to first mixture alternately with the cold water. Stir in 1 C. of the coconut. Pour into well-greased pan and bake in moderate oven at 350 degrees for 35 minutes. Ice with a frosting made as follows: Boil 1 C. sugar and 1/4 C. water without stirring until syrup forms a long thread when dropped from spoon. Beat 2 egg whites stiff; pour syrup slowly over egg whites, stirring constantly. Add 3/4 tsp. lemon extract. Beat until right consistency to spread. Sprinkle thickly with remaining coconut.
 
 
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