On 3/4/2010 9:00 AM, notbob wrote:
> On 2010-03-04, Christine > wrote:
>
>> Ever hear of Pina Coladas? They call for Cream of Coconut..
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> It's my understanding that Lopez CoC, the std ingredient in pina
> coladas, and the brand you are most likely to find in liquor stores,
> is a whole different animal than true CoC, which comes from the fat
> solids that rise to the top of the milk from pressed soaked coconut
> meat. Some Thai recipe cooking websites openly warn against using
> Lopez instead of real coconut milk like Mae Ploy brand.

The liquid found in a coconut is called "coconut water." Getting coconut
milk requires a lot of work. My neighbor used to make coconut milk which
required that he grate the coconut meat first. He used a stool with a
grater attached to it. I never saw how he got the milk out of the grated
coconut but the milk was used to make a coconut pudding called haupia.

That guy was really old-school and would dig a pit in his backyard to
roast a whole pig. I was just a kid at the time but if I were about 6 or
so years older, I would have spent more time learning about all of his
old-school ways. These days, hardly anybody knows how to build an imu.

>
> Kasma Loha-unchit, the SFBA Thai cookbook author/teacher, offers this
> advice on good coconut milk/cream:
>
> http://www.thaifoodandtravel.com/ing...s/cocmilk.html

The problem with the canned coconut milk sold in the US is that there's
no information on the amount of fat in the product.

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> nb
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