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and stir all very well together. If the paste is too thick to 

 drop from the end of the spoon use a little more milk, drop 

 in small cakes and bake quickly. In this way currant 

 cookies may be made, substituting currants for coeoanuts, 

 caraway seed, chopped hickory nuts, citron, or any spice 

 may be used in place of the currants and the cookies called 

 by the name of the ingredient. 



Cocoanut Cake, (Good.) -Three-fourths of a pint of 

 powdered sugar, one large tablespoonful of butter, half a 

 pint of grated cocoanut, one pint of flour, one tablespoon- 

 ful of baking-powder, and milk enough to make a sti£E 

 batter. Bake in shallow greased pans and scatter dry 

 cocoanut over the top. 



Cocoanut Desiccated. (Catharine Owen.)— This pop- 

 ular author says: "I prefer to prepare this myself as it is 

 so much whiter and sweeter, and very much cheaper than 

 when bought ready prepared. Choose a line cocoanut, 

 (as it keeps indefinitely, you may do several,) pare it care- 

 fully, wipe it to remove all specks of the rind, or, if very 

 much soiled wash it. but dry it very carefully afterwards. 

 Then grate it on a lui-ge, coarse grater, sprinkle it with 

 granulated sugar, shake it up well and then dry on tin 

 pans in a cool oven, with the door open, or in the hot sun, 

 stirring it up now and then. It should not change color 

 at all but be glittering white, and should be perfectly dry 

 before it ia put away. It keeps for mouths in tin canisters 

 or wide mouthed bottles. 



Cocoanut Potato Pie, STo. 1.— Three eggs, one large 

 potato, one-half cup cocoanut, one pint milk, one table- 

 spoonful butter, sugar to taste, a little salt. 



Boil and mash the potato, and add the sugar, butter, 

 and salt, then the beaten eggs, and lastly the milk in which 

 part of the cocoanut has been soaked. Reserve the white 

 of one egg for frosting, add To it the rest of the cocoanut,. 

 and spread a little red sugar over the top. 

 Cocoanut Custard Pie, No. 3.— One pound cocoanut. 



