Brown Cocoanut Candy

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Ingredients 5 ingredients

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

14 lbs.
Brown Sugar.
6 large Cocoanuts Sliced.
3 pints water.
PROCESS.--Melt the sugar in the water, and boil to degree of ball, then add the sliced cocoanut, stir them in remove the pan from the fire and rub the sugar against the side of the pan until it becomes cloudy stir the whole together until the whole becomes cloudy and thick;
turn out the batch into tins or on slabs;
mark with a sharp knife into squares or bars.
When cold break it up at marks.
Prepare the cocoanuts by cutting them up into thin slices with a spokeshave or machine.
The brown skin is seldom skinned off for this dark candy.