Coconut Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 4 eggs
- 1 lemon – juice and rind
- 4 cups sugar
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 1 lb grated coconut
Instructions
- Cream sugar with butter. Add the yolks of the 4 eggs and beat well. Add juice and rind of lemon. Then flour, into which has been sifted the baking powder. Sift flour and baking powder twice before adding to mixture. Use enough flour to make a very stiff batter, add cocoanut, and last, fold in the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth.
- Drop on buttered tins and bake in moderate oven.
