Coconut Mould

Name: Coconut Mould
Cook time: 2 h 15 min
Total time: 2 h 15 min
Yield: 6 helpings
Ingredients: carmine; pink desiccated coconut; 2 oz. desiccated coconut; 2–3 oz. castor sugar; 2 oz. butter; 2 pt. milk; 2½ oz. cornflour

Preparation info

6
helpings

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
2 hr 30

Appears in

Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery

By Isabella Beeton

Published 1871

About

Ingredients

2½ oz. cornflour
2 pt. milk
2 oz.

Dessert
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Blend cornflour with sufficient of the milk to mix to a smooth cream. Heat remaining milk with butter and proceed as for cornflour mould. Add coconut and sugar and colour a very pale pink. Pour quickly into a wet mould. Turn out when set and sprinkle pale pink coconut lightly all over.

To colour coconut: Tint 1