Cocoanut Candy

Ingredients

• one large grated cocoanut
• four cups sugar
• milk of the cocoanut
• a lump of butter the size of a small walnut

Method

1. 1

   Put the grated cocoanut into a deep bowl.

2. 2

   In a saucepan, dissolve the sugar in hot water and boil until it threads from the side of a spoon.

3. 3

   Gradually pour it over the cocoanut and beat hard.

4. 4

   Drop in cakes on a cold slab.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 161. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cocoanut Candy. — Take one large grated cocoanut and put into a deep bowl. Put into a saucepan four cups sugar, with hot water to dissolve it in ; let it boil until it threads from the side of a spoon; then gradually pour over the cocoanut and beat hard. Drop in cakes on a cold slab. — Mrs. H. R. Lan- caster. Cocoanut Candy. — The proportion is one heaping cup of grated cocoanut to two even cups of granulated sugar. Wet the sugar with the milk of the cocoanut and a little water, for there is scarcely enough milk from the cocoanut to moisten it sufficiently. Boil until, when tried in cold water, it is hard enough to pick up in the fingers, though not hard enough to crack against the sides of the goblet. Have the grated cocoanut in a vegetable dish or bowl with a lump of butter the size of a small walnut

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