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Show TO MMiZ. COCOANUT CREAM. Simple Process That Yields Excellent Substitute for Butter, flic cocoRnut In more extcnslvelv used, 1 erhnps, as n food than any other nut. In certnln of tho Pacific .Elands It constitutes almost an cv elusive dietary. Cows, dogs, donkejs. ."bickers, In fact almost every living thin T, oven certain species of crabs, live on the cocoanut, Ingenious) working a vay to the meat through the one open eye of the nut. In the country where It grows the cocoanut Is very larp V eaten In '.'to hnlf-rlpf tnte. At thh ttnuo the ie.it is Jellv like In consistency and iitry be eaten with n spoon It Is vcv toothsom and noiirlshl-g. The nice of tho ripe nut Is very hard to dlrist nnil can scarcely bo masticated s'ltliclently to lire, ro It for entering -re stomach The best uso which can he made of tho meat cf the rlpo c sonnut Is U tho preparation of the eoroanut creirr whlcli is an excellent Mibstltute for butter. This may be easily accmi pushed by t"..e following method: Ito move tho meat and put . through an ordinary vornblc shie''er. I'oi.r over the pulp twlcp tl 1. quantity 1 f boiling water nnd let stand for Inlf an hour, then strain through a fine cloth, and let tho milk bo obtained stand for three or four hours tn a cold place. A rich cream rts s which n.ay bo used In t'..o same n as dairy cream, or like ordlrrm cieam, may bo worked Into butter |