This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
2 tablespoons sugar.
1 rounded tablespoon starch.
2 or 3 ounces grated cocoanut.
3 or 4 whites of eggs. Small piece of butter. Pinch of salt.
Boil the milk alone. Mix the starch and sugar together dry and stir them in; then the butter and cocoanut. Set it away to get cold. Whip the whites to A firm froth and mix them with the pie-mixture. Bake in thin crusts of puff paste. Makes two small pies.
Cost of material - milk 2, sugar and starch 2, cocoanut 5, butter 1, eggs 4, crusts for 2 pies 5; 19 cents for 8 por-tinos, or 2 to 3c per order.
 
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