This section is from the book "Dainties", by Mrs. S. T. Rorer. Also available from Amazon: Dainties.
The day before you expect to serve these, grate a cocoanut, and pour over it a pint of boiling water. Stir it well; put it in a cloth or bag and press thoroughly. Stand the milk thus obtained aside to cool. Next day cut three or four oranges into halves, scoop out the pulp, and prepare the shells as in the first recipe. At serving time mix the orange pulp with sufficient of the cocoanut "cream" to give it a good consistency. Add four tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar, a tablespoonful of orange flower water and the juice of one lemon; mix and fill the shells, cover the top with chopped almonds, pistachio nuts or grated macaroons. Dish in little nests of any sweet, fresh flowerssweet peas, violets, asparagus vine or scarlet rambler.
 
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