Cocoanut Taffy
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the coconut
Cut the coconut into very thin slices, about an inch long.
Warm the slices until they are quite dry.
Make and shape the taffy
Mix the coconut with the sugar until it holds together.
Pour the mixture out in the form of a block.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Coconut (in the method)
- Forms the bulk and main flavor, and its thin slices give the taffy its chewy texture.
- Sugar
- Adds sweetness and helps bind the coconut slices together into a block.
The step that matters
Warm the slices until they are quite dry. Surface moisture on the coconut would dissolve some of the sugar and weaken its hold on the slices, so the mixture would not bind firmly. Drying the slices first helps the sugar stick and the block hold its shape.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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