On Apr 3, 5:49*pm, Christine Dabney > wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 14:30:49 -0700 (PDT), Kris >
> wrote:
>
> >We're having: spring salad with strawberries and pecans, Honeybaked
> >ham, roasted asparagus, golden potatoes (new recipe from Bon Appetit),
> >and white cake with seven-minute fosting and cocount (a old tradition
> >from my dear departed grandmother). *
>
> Are you in, or from the South, Kris? *I find that coconut cake such as
> you describe is a holiday tradition in some parts of the South. *It
> was in my family... *Always had a lemon filling, at least in my
> family.
>
> Christine

Not hardly - Michigan! (Go tonight MSU!) BUT my grandmother was from
Cincinnati, which is more south.

I don't do the lemon filling (although I've had some that way -
delicious!), just the seven-minute frosting with coconut pressed into
it. Just seems like Easter to me.

Thanks for asking,
Kris