Eggs (whtes) ........................ 10

Sifted Flour-Cupfuls ................. 5

Sugar-Cupfuls ....................... 3

Butter-Cupfuls ....................... 1

Milk-Cupfuls ........................ 1

Royal Baking Powder-Teaspoonfuls...... 2

Sift the baking powder well in the flour. Cream butter and sugar very light, add milk, lastly the beaten whites and flour alternately. Divide this batter into four equal parts, flavor one part with bitter almond, for the white layer, another part color a delicate pink, with cochineal and flavor with rose water. Beat the yolks of two eggs very light, and add to the third part, flavor with extract of lemon, this makes the yellow layer. Mix one tablespoonful of Baker's chocolate with a little water, and stir in the fourth part, for the dark layer, and flavor with vanilla.

Icing.

1 1/2 pounds of sugar dissolved and boiled in 1 1/2 teacups of water until it ropes. Pour it gradually into the whites of three eggs which have been beaten to a stiff froth, beat it hard till cool and flavor with vanilla. Stir into this two grated cocoanuts. Spread the icing between each layer and on the top and sides of the cake. Place the chocolate layer at the bottom, then the yellow layer, then the pink and the white.

Mrs. K. D. Walker