Cocoa-Nut Cheese-Cakes

• Grated cocoa-nut, 6 oz.
• sugar, 6 oz.
• the milk of the nut, or of water,

Break carefully the shell of the nut, that the liquid it contains may not escape.† Take out the kernel, pare thinly off the dark skin, and grate the nut on a delicately clean grater; put it, with its weight of pounded sugar, and its own milk, or a couple of spoonsful or rather more of water, into a silver or block-tin saucepan, or a very small copper