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Molasses Cocoanut Cones

A sweet treat made by boiling molasses, mixing with grated coconut, and forming into cones or balls.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Molasses and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 30% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,123 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Molasses Cocoanut Cones

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Boil the molasses until it becomes brittle when dropped into cold water.

  2. Remove from heat and stir in the grated coconut.

Shape

  1. Pour the mixture into buttered pans.

  2. Once cool, form into cones or balls.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Molasses + buttertop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,123 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Molasses
Boiled down, it sets firm and brittle as it cools and gives the sweetness and dark flavor.
Grated coconut
Adds chewy texture and coconut flavor, and soaks up part of the syrup.

The step that matters

Boil the molasses to the brittle stage. Brittle in cold water means the sugar has reached a firm, hard-set concentration. Stopping early leaves the cones soft and sticky, while boiling too long can scorch the molasses and make it bitter.

“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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