Cocoanut Jumbles

Original Recipe

Grate one large cupful of cocoanut; rub one cupful of butter with one and a half cupfuls of sugar; add three beaten eggs, whites and yolks separately, two tablespoonfuls of milk and five cupfuls of sifted flour; then add by degrees the grated nut, so as to make a stiff dough, rolled thin and cut with a round cutter, having a hole in the middle. Bake in a quick oven from five to ten minutes.

Ingredients

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  • 1 large cupful of cocoanut
  • 1 cupful of butter with one and a half cupfuls of sugar
  • 3 beaten eggs
  • 2 tablespoonfuls of milk and five cupfuls of sifted flour
  • 1 stiff dough
  • 1 round cutter
  • 1 hole in the middle
  • 1 quick oven from five to ten minutes

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Grate one large cupful of cocoanut; rub one cupful of butter with one and a half cupfuls of sugar; add three beaten eggs, whites and yolks separately, two tablespoonfuls of milk and five cupfuls of sifted flour; then add by degrees the grated nut, so as to make a stiff dough, rolled thin and cut with a round cutter, having a hole in the middle.

  2. 2

    Bake in a quick oven from five to ten minutes.

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Recipe by Mrs. F.L. Gillette from The White House Cook Book (1887)