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Coconut Candy Recipe

If You Love Coconut, You Will Love The Vintage Chocolate Coconut Candy Recipe


Try a vintage coconut candy recipe and get ready to enjoy the exotic, sweet taste of fresh coconut in an old fashioned candy. These homemade candy recipes are easy to make, and the vintage candy tastes absolutely delicious, just as it did in Grandma's day.

The chocolate coconut candy recipe blends the freshness of coconut and richness of chocolate to make a great tasting candy, and you'll want to try a coconut cream candy recipe too. The homemade cream candies are superb. Also try the coconut fudge recipe. These homemade candies are all good.




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Coconut Candy Recipe

This homemade recipe for coconut candy is taken from the book "Dr. Chase's Third, Last and Complete Receipt Book, Memorial Edition" by Dr. A. W. Chase, M.D., published posthumously by the F. B. Dickerson Company, Detroit and Windsor, in 1891.

Dr. Chase (1817–1885) was a compulsive collector of reliable remedies and recipes, and through the prodigious sale of his books, his name became identified as that of a family friend in millions of homes worldwide.

My copy of Dr. Chase's book is well worn because my grandparents often referred to it, and it is also one of my favorites. The old-fashioned candy recipes are easy to make, and the candies are delicious. The Old Doctor's folksy remarks and historical comments make for delightful reading. You will enjoy trying this old-fashioned coconut candy recipe.


Put into a suitable kettle pulverized white sugar, 4 pounds; the beaten whites of 2 eggs, and the milk of 2 coconuts. Stir together, and place over the fire until you see it is thickening; then, having the coconut meats nicely grated, put in, and watch and stir carefully, till it hardens quickly when dropped into cold water, then pour on buttered tins or marble slab. Spread out to thickness desired, and before cold mark off to suit.

Remarks --If done with judgement and care, it is very nice. A gentleman or his wife, in the house where I room at this writing, January 1885, makes a batch of this nearly every evening, and sells it the next day to the school children. They sometimes cook it till it takes rather a yellow or brown shade, as some of the children like it better than if left entirely white. --Dr. Chase

Coconut Cream Candy Recipe

This Fanny Farmer recipe for coconut cream candy is taken from "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book" by Fannie Merritt Farmer, Principal of the Boston Cooking School, published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, circa 1916.

1-1/2 cups sugar, 2 teaspoons butter, 1/2 cup milk, 1/3 cup shredded coconut, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Put butter into granite saucepan; when melted, add sugar and milk, and stir until sugar is dissolved. Heat to boiling-point, and boil twelve minutes; remove from fire, add coconut and vanilla, and beat until creamy and mixture begins to sugar slightly around edge of saucepan. Pour at once into a buttered pan, cool slightly, and mark in squares.

One-half cup nutmeat, broken in pieces, may be used in place of coconut.

Coconut Candy Recipes

These old fashioned homemade candy recipes are taken from the book "Aunt Babette's Cook Book, Foreign and Domestic Receipts for the Household" by Aunt Babette, published by Bloch Publishing and Printing Company, Chicago, in 1889.

Chewy Coconut Caramels

Take one pint of milk, butter about the size of an egg, one coconut grated fine, three pounds of white sugar, and two teaspoonfuls of lemon extract. Boil slowly until stiff, beat to a cream, pour into shallow buttered pans and when set cut into squares.

Coconut Cones

Whip the whites of five eggs to a very stiff froth and add gradually the whole of one pound of pulverized sugar and one teaspoonful of arrowroot; last, a fresh-grated coconut, or half a pound of desiccated coconut. Mould the mixture with your hands into small cones (flour your hands); set these far enough apart not to touch one another, upon buttered or waxed paper, in a long baking pan. Bake in moderate oven. Be sure to prepare the coconut before you begin; lay the pieces in cold water after paring, until all is grated.

Coconut Drops

Take one pound of grated coconut, half a pound of confectioners' sugar and the stiff-beaten white of one egg. Work all together and roll in the hands into little balls. Bake on buttered tins.

Coconut Candy Recipes

These vintage recipes for coconut candy are taken from one of Mom's old recipe scrapbooks, circa 1929.

Chocolate Coconut Candy Recipe

For making chocolate coconut creams, use two pounds confectioners' sugar, one-fourth pound grated coconut, one tablespoonful vanilla, a pinch of salt, whites of three eggs (beaten very stiff). Mix all together, and roll into small balls; let stand one-half hour; then dip into the chocolate prepared thus: One-half cake Baker's® chocolate (grated fine), two tablespoonfuls butter. Warm the butter; mix in the chocolate. When cool dip the creams in, and set on a buttered plate to harden. --Mrs. Edward E. Powers, Recipes Tried and True

Coconut Cream Candy

Three cups white sugar, scant half cup water, 1/2 teaspoonful cream of tartar; boil 10 minutes, then add 1 cup grated coconut; beat well together and drop on white paper by the spoonful. -Hazel Rooklidge, The Times Cook Book

Coconut Cream Candy

One coconut, 1-1/2 pounds granulated sugar. Put sugar and milk of coconut together, heat slowly until sugar is melted, then boil 5 minutes; add coconut (finely grated), boil 10 minutes longer, stir constantly to keep from burning. Pour on buttered plates, cut in squares. Will take about 2 days to harden. Use prepared coconut when other cannot be had. --Fruit and Candies

Coconut Drops Recipe

Grate the white part of a coconut, the whites of four eggs (well beaten), one-half pound of sifted sugar. Flavour with lemon or rose. Mix as thick as can be stirred. Make in balls, putting them about one inch apart on paper on baking tins. Put into a quick oven; take out when they begin to look yellow. --Mrs. Fisher, Recipes Tried and True

Coconut Fudge Recipe

1/2 envelope Knox® Sparkling Gelatine, 3 tablespoonfuls cold water, 1 cup shredded coconut, 2 cups sugar, 1 cup milk, 1/2 tablespoonful butter, 1 teaspoonful vanilla. Soak gelatine in cold water five minutes. Put sugar and milk in saucepan, bring to boiling-point and let boil until when tried in cold water a soft ball may be formed. Remove from range, add soaked gelatine, butter, and vanilla. Beat until creamy, add coconut and turn into a buttered pan. --Dainty Desserts for Dainty People




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