COCONUT ICE

Ingredients:

      1 kg of Sifted Icing Sugar
500 grams desiccated coconut
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 x 400 gram tin of condensed milk
2 x egg whites
60 grams Copha shortening
cochineal pink colouring

Method:

1.   Combine Icing Sugar and coconut in a bowl.
2.    Melt copha.... and line a lamington tin with aluminium foil
3.   Add Vanilla, condensed milk, egg whites and melted copha.
4.   Combine this mixture well and separate into two separate lots.
5.   In one lot, add a few drops of cochineal and colour pink.
6.   Press Pink lot into the bottom of a foil lined  18 x 28 cm Lamington Tin.
7.   Place in the fridge for a few minutes to start the chill process.
8.   Take out and press on top the white section and return to the refrigerator to set harder.
9.  When sufficiently set turn out and cut into convenient squares for consumption.

YUMMY!  plus.. I made this when I was very young.

                                                        

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