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.