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Cocoanut Creams

A sweet treat made by kneading coconut into dough, shaping, dipping in egg white, and rolling in shredded coconut.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Cocoanut Creams

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Knead the coconut into a dough.

  2. Form the dough into small shapes.

  3. Dip each shape into the egg white.

  4. Roll the dipped shapes in shredded coconut.

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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What each ingredient does

Cocoanut
Forms the dough base, providing the main body and flavor of the sweet.
Egg white
Acts as a binder so the shredded coconut coating adheres to each 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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