Islands Recipes
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Coconut Balls
10 Wheel Bix (crushed). 2 tablespoons of cocoa. 1 cup of raisins and nuts (chopped). 1 tin of condensed milk (sweetened).
Mix all well together, and press into little balls, and roll in coconut, and leave to set. Do not cook. —E.K.W. (Norfolk Island).
Icing For Cakes, Without
Icing Sugar
3 heaped tablespoons of powdered milk. 2 heaped tablespoons of sugar. 1 dessertspoon of boiling water. 1 teaspoon of butter.
Dissolve the sugar in the water in a saucepan, but do not boil: add butter.
Pour into powdered milk and mix well to consistency of ordinary icing. Add any flavouring, such as cocoa, vanilla, grated lemon rind.
Mrs. L.K.S., Talasea, NG.