Cocoa-nut Cakes

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New ... · Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady · 1840
Source
The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;: In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed.
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Ingredients (5)
Instructions (8)
  1. Grate the cocoa-nut on a fine bread grater.
  2. Boil an equal quantity of loaf-sugar, melted with six table-spoonfuls of rose-water.
  3. Take off all the scum.
  4. Throw in the grated cocoa-nut, and let it heat thoroughly in the syrup.
  5. Keep constantly stirring, to prevent its burning to the bottom of the pan.
  6. Have ready beaten the yolks of eight eggs, with two table-spoonfuls of rose-water.
  7. Throw in the cocoa-nut by degrees, and keep beating it with a wooden slice one hour.
  8. Fill your pans, and send them to the oven immediately, or they will be heavy.
Original Text
Cocoa-nut Cakes. Grate the cocoa-nut on a fine bread grater; boil an equal quantity of loaf-sugar, melted with six table-spoonfuls of rose-water; take off all the scum; throw in the grated cocoa-nut, and let it heat thoroughly in the syrup, and keep constantly stirring, to prevent its burning to the bottom of the pan. Have ready beaten the yolks of eight eggs, with two table-spoonfuls of rose-water; throw in the cocoa-nut by degrees, and keep beating it with a wooden slice one hour; then fill your pans, and send them to the oven immediately, or they will be heavy.
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