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Cocoanut Cream Candy

A historical dessert recipe from Fannie Merritt Farmer's 1910 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.

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Gather

Ingredients

  • 1½ cups Sugar
  • ½ cup Milk
  • 2 teaspoons Butter
  • ⅓ cup Shredded Cocoanut
  • ½ teaspoon Vanilla

Make it

Method

  1. 1

    Put butter into granite saucepan; when melted, add sugar and milk, and stir until sugar is dissolved.

  2. 2

    Heat to boiling-point, and boil twelve minutes; remove from fire, add cocoanut and vanilla, and beat until creamy and mixture begins to sugar slightly around edge of saucepan. Pour at once into a buttered pan, cool slightly, and mark in squares.

  3. 3

    One-half cup nut meat, broken in pieces, may be used in place of cocoanut.

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Where this recipe comes from

Cocoanut Cream Candy, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910).

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Historical measurements, equipment, temperatures and terminology may differ from modern kitchen practice.