Lemon coconut cake

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       Title: LEMON COCONUT CAKE
  Categories: Cakes
       Yield: 1 servings
  
       3 c  Cake Flour; sifted
       3 ts Baking Powder
     1/4 ts Salt
     1/2 c  Butter; or shortening
     1/2 c  Sugar
       1 c  Milk
     1/2 ts 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 9-inch layer pans in moderate oven 375 degrees F.) 25
   to 30 minutes. Spread Coconut Lemon Filling (see recipe) 1/2-inch
   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 1-inch border of coconut.
  
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