Stewed Prunes and Grated Cocoanut
Ingredients
Directions
Soak the Californian plums in enough water to cover them overnight.
Stew the plums in the soaking water until tender.
Remove the brown outer skin from the fresh cocoanut and grate it.
Serve the grated cocoanut separately with the stewed plums.
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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