Powdered sugar Shredded coconut Cream the butter and add gradually the sugar and the beaten whites of eggs.
Coconut of this kind will be found to be very delicious and will make excellent cake.
Coconut may be purchased already shredded in boxes or cans, or it may be obtained in the shells and then shredded at home.
The flavor of coconut added to an already delicious corn-starch custard makes a pie that never fails to tempt the appetite of every one.
A light pudding to which shredded coconut is added to give flavor is a satisfactory dessert for a heavy meal.
The flesh of the coconut when shredded is much used in the preparation of cakes, being put in the cake mixture or used in connection with icing between the layers and over the top layer.
In case coconut becomes dry and hard before it is used, it can be softened by steaming it in the manner in which dried fruits are steamed.
If coconut or any other ingredient, such as chopped nuts or fruit, is to be used, sprinkle it on the icing as in Fig.
Beat the egg whites and fold into the coconut and sugar.
The flavor ofcoconut in custard is agreeable, but the toughness of this ingredient with a soft custard is not always acceptable.
Put the coconut into the milk while it is hot, and allow it to remain for 5 or 10 minutes after the milk has become heated.
Much more satisfactory coconut can be secured by procuring a coconut, cracking open the shell, removing the flesh, and then grating or grinding it.
Put the milk in a double boiler and steep the coconut in it until the milk is hot.
Mary Cornell brought the old seaman a young coconut to drink, and her husband added a little rum; Mallet tossed it off and then sat down.
This was to despatch either the barque or brig, laden with trade goods, to the Society Islands in the South Pacific, to barter for coconut oil and pearl shell.
A brackish lagoon surrounded by mangroves andcoconut groves, located just east of Playa Azul.
A village on the Pacific coast near the mouth of the Rio Carrizal; arid tropical scrub forest; coconut plantations; mangrove-lined lagoons.
Industry consists primarily of small factories to process passion fruit, lime oil, honey, and coconut cream.
We saw another of these curious funeral screens--like the first one it was situated in a little glade in the forest, but unlike it the front was covered or thatched with coconut leaves, and it had a small door-like opening in the centre.
Next day we passedCoconut Island on our right, and Dove Island on our left, and anchored near Arden Island, where we landed on the following morning before daylight with a seining party.
A tombstone with suitable inscription was afterwards erected by Captain Stanley, and two young coconut trees were planted near the grave.
The king here has three thousand dollars in cash and three thousand dollars' worth of coconut ile and turtle-shell.
Then making our end of the line fast to the trunk of a coconut tree, we set some children to watch, and went into the trenches to drink some kava, smoke, and gossip.
The tackle used by the natives is made of coconut cinnet, four or eight-stranded, of great strength, and capable of holding a fifteen-foot shark should one of these prowlers seize the bait.
A small fire ofcoconut shells was burning in the centre of the room, and by its light Ross saw several women crouched round the bodies of three men, performing the last offices for the dead.
At each place setting, there had been placed a niu, a coconut with its top slashed off, still containing the wai niu, or coconut water, which would be sipped with the meal.
The broad trunk of the coconut palm tree behind which he lurked protected him from being seen by anyone on the hotel's wide, sweeping porch.
The woman was seated in a high-backed chair, made of coconut fronds, with her feet in a tub filled with pink, red, and yellow buds.
There was also a dish of moa, chicken cooked in coconut juice, and another pa of opihi, a small, delicately flavored shell fish.
A variety of forest covered the island, punctuated by patches of grassland, a few large coconut plantations, and garden plots near the scattered villages.
Cultivated tracts, whether coconut plantations or gardens, posed few obstacles to vision or movement.
During the fighting on the approaches to the Volupai coconut plantation, the body of a Japanese soldier yielded a map showing enemy dispositions around Talasea.
Mrs. Egg felt that he must be horrible, naked, like a doll carved of coconut bark Adam had sent home from Havana.
Say, remind me to make a coconut cake in the morning in the big pan.
Seaward, glimpsed through a fringe of hundred-foot coconut palms, was the ocean; beyond the reef a dark blue that grew indigo blue to the horizon, within the reef all the silken gamut of jade and emerald and tourmaline.
The coconut palm rises into the air, ripens its fruit, and departs.
He had brought with him a coconut calabash, tightly stoppered, of whale-oil that must have been landed on Lahaina beach thirty years before.
A coconut rolled between my legs and I closed them on it.
The meat of the coconut together with its milk comes nearer to the chemical composition of human milk than any other food in existence.
The coconut differs from the other nuts in that it contains less fats and proteins and more organic salts.
When I took a sabbatical in Fiji, I advised local gardeners to use coconut meal, an inexpensive "waste" from extracting coconut oil.
It was hoisted aboard in baskets of coconut leaf and stowed in the main hold, and then the day's work, as far as the crew were concerned, was over.
None of the Solomon Islanders were visible, they all having taken up their quarters in the main-hold on top of the cases of pearl shell, where they had spread their rough mats of coconut leaf.
The village consists of a dozen or two native huts along the beach in a very pretty grove of coconut trees.
The stores are mainly of concrete with red tile or red-painted corrugated iron roofs, which, among the tall coconut palms, are very attractive in appearance.
I shall say "No,"' said the girl, looking at him from the corner of her eye as she raised a coconut to her lips.
But the coconut loves a sandy soil and the salt breath of the sea and the company of its own kind.
Is it any wonder that the coconut has become an emblem of fertility and prosperity and all good luck?
As for the obstinate casing that wraps the coconut shell, it is an article of commerce.
There is no production of Nature that I know of less negotiable than a coconut as the tree presents it.
There is yet another benevolence of the coconut tree which I have left to the last, and the simple folk of whom I am trying to write with fellow feeling would certainly have named it first.
I have been told that, when a very holy man dies, who always clothed himself in ashes and never profaned his hands with work, his disciples sometimes break a coconut over his head.
When the white kernel has been turned to account, the utilities of the coconut are not exhausted.
The coconut tree is a palm, and has nothing to do with cocoa of the breakfast table.
When the axe is at last laid to the old coconut tree, a beam will fall to the earth sixty feet in length, hard as teak and already rounded and smoothed.
So, when he breaks a coconut at the launching of a pattimar, he is a gainer in hope, if nothing else; while we squander our champagne and gain nothing.
How many boys and girls are there in this kingdom to whom the word coconut connotes an ingredient which goes to the making of a very toothsome sweetie?
But he cannot do without cordage, and if you took from him his coconut fibre, life would almost stop.
Here they foraged upon the lawns between the cottages, hopping rather than walking like water-thrushes, and when alarmed flew up to rest upon the broad fronds of the coconut palms that lined the sandy beach.
Say, Aunt Lydia--what is all the milk in the coconut about me?
Coconut for this purpose may be secured in a number of forms.
Nuts and coconut are used in it, and these improve the flavor very much.
Any coconut that becomes too dry for use may be softened by steaming it.
Spread the nuts on a buttered slab or pan, and to them add fruit or coconut if it is desired to use either of these.
Either shredded or ground coconut is often used in candy to give it flavor or variety.
Coconut may be used in place of the nuts if desired or the fondant may be used alone.
A coconut itself may be purchased, cracked open to remove the flesh, and then prepared either by grating it or by grinding it.
The canned varieties remain soft, since the shredded coconut is mixed with the milk of the coconut, but these have the disadvantage of not keeping very well.
However, if it is not desired to prepare the coconut in the home, this material may be purchased shredded in boxes or in cans.
Then put these with the coconut and nuts through a food chopper or chop them all in a bowl with a chopping knife.
The Marines soon ran into stubborn resistance, to include 75mm artillery pieces firing pointblank down the coastal road and the orderly rows of a coconut plantation.
Illustration: As the raider skirmish line maneuvers cautiously through the coconut groves and keeps an eye out for snipers in the treetops, it is also wary of enemy elsewhere.
The bunkers were mutually supporting and well protected by coconut logs and coral.
There they recuperated in pyramidal tents in a coconut grove along the banks of a river.
Or form paste into small balls, and roll in coconutor chopped nut meats.
Coconut plantations and sugar estates make a strong appeal to the imagination, but for peaceful beauty they cannot compare with the cacao plantation.
Until recently these fats, coconut stearine and others, could be ignored by the reputable chocolate makers as the confection produced by their use was inferior to true chocolate both in taste and in keeping properties.
The surrounding countryside was given over to rice paddies and occasional coconut groves.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coconut" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
