This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
A thin sheet of cake baked first, then either spread or striped with cocoanut macaroon mixture, baked lightly and finished with spots of jelly.
For the cake:
8 ounces sugar - 1 cup.
1/2 cup milk or water.
1 large teaspoon baking powder. Flour to roll out, or about 4 cups.
Warm the butter and sugar slightly, stir them together, add the eggs, milk, powder and flour. Work the dough on the table and roll it out thin, Bake on a shallow pan to a light color.
For the macaroon paste:
8 ounces sugar - 1 cup.
2 whites of eggs.
4 ounces desiccated cocoanut. Little lemon extract.
Stir the sugar and whites together in a small bowl rapidly for about 5 minutes. Add the extract and the cocoa-nut. When mixed place it in cords across the sheet of cake and bake again in a slack oven until the macaroon on top has a light brown color Place fruit jelly in the hollows between the ridges.
Cost of material - 43 cents plain - with jelly 5 cents more - for nearly 3 pounds. Cut in 18 or 20 squares.
 
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