Home-Made Cocoanut Sweets

Ingredients

• two cups of granulated sugar
• one cup of milk
• two tablespoonfuls of butter
• one-half cupful of shredded cocoanut

Method

1. 1

   Put sugar and milk in a saucepan, stir until dissolved, add butter, and cook without stirring until it forms a creamy ball in cold water.

2. 2

   Remove from heat, add shredded cocoanut, beat until creamy, pour into a buttered pan, cool, cut into squares, and roll in shredded cocoanut.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Durham cook book ... (1921) by Durham (N. C.) Trinity Methodist Church. Woman's Missionary Society, page 33. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

HOME-MADE COCOANUT SWEETS. A neAv recipe for candy never comes amiss; here is an ideal sAA'eet for the little folks: Put into a porcelain-lined saucepan tAA'o cups of granulated sugar and one cup of milk, stir until the suaar is dissolved, add tAA-o tablespoonfuls of butter and cook Avithout stirring fur about fifteen minutes, until it forms a creamy ball, Avhen it is dropped into cold Avater. Take off from the fire, add one-half cupful of shredded cocoanut

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