This section is from the book "The Laurel Health Cookery", by Evora Bucknum Perkins. Also available from Amazon: The Laurel Health Cookery.
Place milk on ice for a few hours when the butter will rise to the top and can be skimmed off.
Is delightful on breakfast cereals, or eaten with bread in place of butter. The brown covering of the meat should first be taken off.
Put any left-overs of prepared cocoanut on a plate and set in the sun or near the stove to dry. keep in glass jars in a dry place. This unsweetened cocoanut can be used for shortening and in many places where sweet is not desirable.
 
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