White Cocoanut Pie

Ingredients

• 1 cup milk
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 rounded tablespoon starch
• 2 or 3 ounces grated cocoanut
• 3 or 4 whites of eggs
• Small piece of butter
• Pinch of salt

Method

1. 1

   Boil the milk alone.

2. 2

   Mix the starch and sugar together dry and stir them in; then add the butter and cocoanut.

3. 3

   Set it away to get cold.

4. 4

   Whip the whites to a firm froth and mix them with the pie mixture.

5. 5

   Bake in thin crusts of puff paste.

6. 6

   Makes two small pies.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 58. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

White Cocoanut Pie. 1 cup milk. 2 tablespoons sugar. 1 rounded tablespoon starch. 2 or 3 ounces grated cocoanut, 3 or 4 whites of eggs. Small piece of butter. Pinch of salt

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