Old-Timey Coconut Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. unsalted butter (real thing)
2 c. sugar
3 c. plain flour
4 eggs
1 1/2 c. buttermilk
1 tsp. soda
1 Tbsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. salt

Preparation

Cream butter.
Add sugar and unbeaten eggs, one at a time. Beat well but not too long.
Add salt and vanilla.
Stir soda into buttermilk.
Alternately add flour and buttermilk to the butter-sugar mixture, being sure to end with flour.
Grease 3 cake pans.
Put waxed paper in bottoms.
Pour in batter; bake in a 350\u00b0 oven for about 20 minutes, or until cake tests done.
Cool. Prepare filling.