1 cup butter
1 cup shortening
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoons baking ammonia — ammonium carbonate
1 pinch salt
2 cups coconut — flaked
4 cups flour
Cream butter, shortening, sugar, vanilla. Sift flour with baker’s ammonia and salt. Stir in flour mixture and coconut.
Preheat oven to 325?F. Shape dough into balls the size of a walnut. Place 2 1/ 2″ apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake in 325?F oven for 15 minutes. Don’t o pen the oven door while cookies are baking.