Cocoa-nut Pies

Ingredients

• 1 breakfast-cupful of milk
• 1 table-spoonful of starch
• 2 table-spoonfuls of sugar
• a small lump of butter
• 1 pinch of salt
• two or three ounces of grated Cocoa-nut
• the whites of three or four eggs

Method

1. 1

   Boil the milk and add the starch mixed with sugar.

2. 2

   Incorporate butter, salt, and grated Cocoa-nut.

3. 3

   Let it cool, then add beaten egg whites.

4. 4

   Pour into puff paste-lined pans and bake until done.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 409. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cocoa-nut Pies. — Pour 1 breakfast-cupful of milk into a sauce- pan, boil it, and sprinkle in 1 table-spoonful of starch mixed with 2 table-spoonfuls of sugar ; when these are incorporated, add a small lump of butter, 1 pinch of salt, and two or three ounces of grated Cocoa-nut. Pour the mixture into a basin, and let it get cold ; then add the whites of three or four eggs

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