Re: coconut milk (and )

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hey, brenda--

having lived in honduras and mexico, i know a little about coconuts, but i

have a resident expert: our tanzanian cook!

< Then to make coconut milk you take the inside meat

and process it with water then strain it and the mixture is coconut milk.

Is

this because the coconuts are old ones?

yep. and, according to mama jane, the coconut has to ripen on the tree. if it

is already off the tree, you can tell how young or old it is, relatively, by

shaking it (and listening for the sound of water) or by tapping it with a

quarter (i guess a knuckle would suffice) and listening for a hollow sound.

< I'm using young coconuts and the

liquid or " water " is where all the flavor is. There's hardly any meat, and

it's real soft and gelatinous (my son said the meat was like eating worms -

like when has he eaten worms!) without a lot of flavor.

i almost gagged when i ate really young coconut. the water, however, is

delicious.

< I tried processing

it and it was a disaster. I kept adding water and adding water then tried

to

strain it and nothing strained out of it. Does anyone know anything about

coconuts? Our health food stores sell the young ones like you see out in the

islands and the islanders all drink the liquid or " water " as the book calls

it. The islanders used to laugh at the hard dried up ones we usually see in

the stores here. Would appreciate any advice anyone has.>

if you want to make the milk, then you are going to have to request older

coconuts.

i'm curious as to why the islanders would laugh at the older coconuts. in

mexico and tanzania they aren't " ageist " <g> about their coconuts.

a couple of interesting notes about coconuts: in mexico, i lived across from

a candy store, where i got what they called the " apple of the coconut " . in

the mornings, when they would crack open the coconuts, occasionally there

would be an apple-shaped fruit on the inside instead of the water. it was

crunchy and juicy like an apple and very refreshing.

mama jane tells me that a treatment for cholera in tanzania is a coconut

water IV. !!! she says that it works, and, after reading about the lauric

acid contained in coconuts, i'm not so surprised.

can anyone help me with , please? i can't access " my groups " .

when i use the " conversion wizard " , it says that my account has already been

converted, which i did over a wk ago...yet it says that i don't belong to any

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fortunately, i was already on digest mode with this group.

tia--

allene