Coconut Delights

Ingredients

• 2 beaten eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup dates-chopped
• 1 cup pecans-chopped
• 1 large package of angel flake coconut
• 1 % ey ecupep lain! flour

Method

1. 1

   Beat eggs and sugar together, add salt, baking powder and flour, then add nuts and dates.

2. 2

   Spread thin in a greased flour pan (12 x 14 or some).

3. 3

   Bake 3/5 oven about 20 minutes or until light brown.

4. 4

   Mix immediately with a fork when it comes out of the oven.

5. 5

   Let it cool slightly and roll into small balls.

6. 6

   When cool, roll balls into icing and then into coconut.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Shallowford cookery (1951) by Marie Koury, page 8. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 cup sugar 1 pt. sweet milk Mix butter and flour as you do for pie dough. When it is worked to crumbly stage, add milk Slowly and mix. If dry, add small amount of milk. Let this rest 1 hour. Now mix nuts with Sugar in separate bowl. Roll % tablespoon of dough very thin. Put approximately } teaspoon chopped nuts on one side of dough and roll like a cigar. Repeat until all dough is used. Bake On ungreased cookie sheet at 350 degrees 35-40 minutes or until light brown. Makes 150-200. Glaze: 3. tablespoons orange 3 cups water blossom water (may 6 cups sugar be omitted) Cook syrup until it becomes stringy when held up on a spoon. Almost soft boil stage. Turn heat to simmer and dip cookies quickly, drain on a rack and remove to wax paper to cool. Glaze on cookies will crystallize. If glaze in pan crystalizes, add a small amount of water and recook to stringy stage. 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