Date-Cocoanut
Date Sandwiches
Stone and chop dates until soft enough to spread between thin slices of buttered bread. If good butter and wholesome white or brown bread…
Date Gems
To half a cup of stoned, chopped dates add the wellbeaten yolk of one egg, a pinch of salt, half a pint of sweet milk, two scant cups of…
Date Fruit Bread
Make as for Bread for Fruit Toast (Introductory Recipes), and for each loaf allow and work in nearly a pint of chopped, stoned dates.
Dates with Breakfast Food
With any cooked breakfast food stir in a cup or more of stoned, chopped dates a few minutes before removing from the fire. Or, they may be…
Stewed Dates
Wash and cover a pound of dates with one pint of water and let stand over night. In the morning place on the stove and let them come to a…
India
The first stage of the fruiting Cocoanut bloom and cocoanuts with outer husk unremoved Cocoanut Palm: Cocos nucifera. (Linn.)
Gathering Cocoanuts
for a few minutes, adding a few drops of lemon or lime or orange juice, then remove the fruit, add a little sugar to the water left in the…
Date Jam
Jam may be made from dates by cooking in the proportion of one pound of stoned fruit to one cup of water and a half-pound of sugar-the…
Date Fluff-Duff
Stew one cupful of dates, stoned, until tender, then put through a colander and mix with one cup of sugar in which has been sifted a…
Date Foam
Make an orange or lemon gelatine jelly. (With a plain gelatine it is best to follow directions given by the manufacturers of the particular…
Date Pie
For two pies use a pound of dates. Wash them and place in a crock with a quart of milk to heat slowly. When soft stone them and crush or…
Date Layer Cake
Use the "One, Two, Three, Four" recipe (see Introductory Recipes) and bake in layers. Ice with a plain, boiled icing (see Introductory…
Date Loaf Cake
Make the cake as above, using, however, an additional cup of flour and a second heaping teaspoon of baking powder. Add one grated nutmeg…
Date Macaroons
Beat the whites of three eggs stiff, then add gradually a half pound of powdered sugar (a dessertspoonful of cornstarch sifted through the…
Stuffed Dates
These are not necessarily for mere sweetmeats as there is in them a great amount of condensed nourishment, though they make a most "dainty…
Date Fudge
To two cups of granulated sugar add two-thirds of a cup of sweet milk and one-third cup butter. Add one teaspoonful of vanilla when the…
Date Ice
Make a lemonade or orangeade and to each quart of liquid add one pound of stoned, chopped dates and a half cupful of fine chopped nuts. A…
Date Ice-Cream
Make the usual foundation ice-cream, adding to it for each quart a cupful or more of shredded dates, then freeze. (Flavour as liked.)
Cocoanut and Date Salad
The fresh cocoanut, cut in cubes, mixed with stoned, halved dates, served on crisp, tender lettuce or young cabbage leaves, makes a pretty…
Cocoanut Milk for Cookery
Cocoanut milk may be used in any way that cow's milk is used: for soups, stews, and dainty desserts. The milk may still be used after the…
Cocoanut Curry
In India cocoanut is very much used in curries. For a vegetable curry melt two tablespoons of butter in a saucepan (or use cookng oil)…
Cocoanut Omelet
Beat together the whites of three eggs with a half teaspoonful of salt and dash of tabasco. When well whipped add the yolks and one cup of…
Cocoanut Indian Fritters
Place in a bowl three tablespoons of flour and scald with sufficient scalding cocoanut milk to make a smooth, stiff paste. Let it cool…
Cocoanut Toast
Toast to a medium brown some slices of rusk and pour over them fresh cocoanut milk, slightly thickened; adding at the last shredded, tender…
Cocoanut and Orange Flowers
When at its first creamy ("spoon") stage serve the cocoanut from the shell, in convenient pieces, or scraped on to a serving-dish, and…
Sherried Cocoanut
Grate a fresh cocoanut and drop into a thick syrup made of four cups of sugar to two of water, and cook gently for forty minutes. When done…
Cocoanut Cups
Gently stew a sliced cocoanut in the cocoanut milk for an hour, or until tender, then add juice and grated rind of one lemon or orange, a…
Pastel De Coco
To the grated meat of one cocoanut take its weight in granulated sugar and one cup of water. Cook until a moderately thick syrup has been…
Cocoanut Cakes
Mix together one-half pound of flour; one-fourth pound each of butter and sugar, and two eggs. Add a small cup of milk (of the cocoanut, if…
Cocoanut Macaroons
Whip stiff the whites of three eggs and add a cup of powdered sugar, beating till very light. Flavour with almond or vanilla and add half a…
Cocoanut Drops
Grate one cocoanut and weigh, adding half its weight in sugar. Mix this with a stiff-whipped white of egg and drop on buttered paper. Bake…
Cocoanut Cream Candy
Grate one cocoanut and set aside. Boil one and a half pounds of sugar with the milk of the cocoanut, heating very slowly till sugar is…
Persimmon
In serving the uncooked Kaki send it to the table with sharp-pointed spoons with which both to pierce quickly the thin skin and eat the…
Japanese Persimmon
PERSIMMON (Cooked Pudding) This pudding may be made by using to a quart of persimmon pulp two eggs, a pint of milk, a cupful of sugar, a…
Marmalade and Jelly
The marmalade (from the dark, non-astringent fruit) should be cooked in double-boiler with no water. Add instead, a little orange juice…
To Cure or Dry Persimmons
One of the U. S. Government Reports (Fla. Bul. No. 71) gives the following quotation from Professor Kizo Tamari (of the Agricultural…
Apple and Pear Guavas
CHAPTER XXIV THE GUAVA (Psidium, Nat. Ord. Myrtacea) THE HE Guava, a fruit of peculiarly aromatic odour, and one of the most attractive…