Bombay Pineapple-Coconut Milk Kugel

Leaving their shoes at the portals, the Bene Israel—Indian Jews, now mostly dispersed to Britain, Canada, America, and largely to Israel—entered barefoot into beautiful synagogues illumined and perfumed by coconut oil burning in the hanging lamps.

Coconuts also provided the milk used extensively In their kosher cuisine. As a pareve substitute for dairy milk, it could be cooked with meat and employed in desserts served at meat meals without contravening the dietary injunction that pr