Cocoanut Balls
A historical recipe from Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree (1878).
A historical recipe
Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree (1878). Project Gutenberg eBook #42450.
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Credit
From Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree (1878). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #42450 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42450). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.
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Ingredients 1 ingredient
Method
- Wet two pounds of sugar with the milk of a cocoanut.
- Boil and stir till it begins to granulate.
- Then stir in the cocoanut grated fine.
- Boil a short time longer, then pour into buttered dishes, and as soon as it can be handled make into balls.--Mrs.
- J.
- M.
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