1/3 cup sifted flour
1/4 teaspoon flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon butter, melted
2 2/3 cups flaked coconut
Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; set aside.
Beat together eggs and vanilla in bowl until foamy, using electric mixer at high speed.
Gradually beat in sugar.
Continue beating at high speed until thick and lemon-colored.
Blend in butter.
Gradually add dry ingredients to egg mixture, using electric mixer at low speed.
Fold in coconut.
Drop mixture by rounded teaspoonfuls, about 2 inches apart, on greased baking sheets
Bake in 325 degree oven 15 minutes, or until golden brown around the edges.
Remove from baking sheets, cool on racks.
Makes 2 1/2 dozen.

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