3 cup brown sugar
1 cup milk
1 tsp butter
1 cup cocoanut
Directions
Melt 1 c. brown sugar. Add milk, remaining brown sugar and butter.
Boil to soft ball. Add cocoanut. Beat and drop from teaspoon on wax
paper. Cool.
Source: Ruth Leimbach, Huron Grange, Erie County, OH
Servings: 1 servings
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Categories: Beverages; Candy; Dessert
The History of Recipes
Academics have tracked the existence of recipes far back into ancient history, in truth as far as the early Egyptians, and maybe even further. However, sadly, these ancient recipes were just basic hieroglyphic or cunieform recipes for food preparation.
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