Japanese Fruit Cake

This recipe, adapted from Dolphin Dishes: The Submarine Cook Book, published in 1952 by the New London Navy Relief Society of New London, Connecticut, has a somewhat puzzling title. Perhaps this cake was considered Japanese because it contained coconut, an exotic ingredient at the time.
Yield: one 9-inch cake
Cake:
3 cups cake flour (not self-rising)
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