Chinese Coconut Candy
candies, chinese
1 cup grated coconut ( substitute canned)
2 cup brown sugar
1 walnut halves
1) Melt sugar in heavy pan over a slow fire.
2) Add coconut and cook until sugar begins to crystallize.
3) Remove from fire and pour into a buttered pan.
4) Cut into 1 inch squares and press a walnut half on top of each cookie.
Variations: Place 1/2 square of coconut candy or about 1 Teaspoon of crystallized sugar and coconut on one corner of a small WONTON wrapper ( See Recipe WONTON.TXT )
Fold over corner of wrapper, enclosing candy mixture. Pinch together two opposite - Free corners of wrapper, leaving one corner - Free.
Fry in deep hot oil until golden brown.
Yield: 6 servings