Trinidad Toolum

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 4 1/2 cups brown sugar
• 6 cups grated coconut
• 1 cup molasses
• 6 inches dried orange peel, broken into bits
• 1 tablespoon freshly grated gingerroot
• butter, for greasing tray

Recipe

• 1 cook sugar in a heavy aluminum or iron pot and stir until it liquefies.
• 2 mix the shredded coconut in with the sugar and stir until well blended.
• 3 stir occasionally until liquid reddens.
• 4 add molasses, dried orange peel and ginger.
• 5 stir to blend and when the mixture starts to rise and fall, stir briskly and keep stirring until it leaves the side of the pot.
• 6 remove from the heat and drop by table spoon onto a lightly greased tray or dish.
• 7 shape into balls (about the size of table tennis balls).
• 8 remove when firm and store in airtight containers.
• 9 * serving size is a wild guess as i don't remember how much this recipe produces! same with cooking time.