English Coconut Cake

• ½ pound softened butter
• 6 ounces castor sugar
• ½ p

Beat softened butter and sugar in electric mixer until light and creamy. Add the coconut and well-beaten eggs. Sieve flour, cornflour and baking powder, and add grated orange or lemon rind, to taste. Fold into the sugar and butter mixture gradually, adding enough milk to make the mixture just soft enough to drop from the spoon. (A cake made with milk should never be too moist.) Pour the mixture