Cocoanut Jumbles Cookies (1883)

• 1 pound sugar
• 1/4 pound butter
• 5 eggs, whites and yolks beat separately
• 1 pound flour
• 1 gill sour milk
• 3/4 cocoanut, grated
• 2 tablespoons rose water
• 1/2 teaspoon dissolved in 1 tablespoon hot water

Cream the butter and sugar. Work in well, in the following order, the yolks, flour, milk, cocoanut, soda, rose water, and whites.

Stir wll, and drop, by tablespoonfuls, on buttered paper.

Bake in a quick oven.

(Origin - "Ice Cream and Cakes: A New Collection of Standard Fresh and Original Receipts" by An American. Published in 1883 by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York)