Coconut Loaf - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine, softened
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup milk
1 1/4 cups flaked coconut

Preparation

In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla.
Combine flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk. Stir in coconut.
Pour into a greased 9\"x5\"x3\" loaf pan. Bake at 350 for 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
Cool for 10 minutes before removing from the pan to a wire rack to cool completely.
(This ends up being a good batter to put pudding mix into, as well, for when you're out of coconut. I've added a small box of butterscotch pudding, and it came out being absolutely delicious.).