Beijinhos de Coco (Coconut Kisses) recipe below In an earlier post I talked about dulceras, largely enslaved women who sold sweets in urban centers carried on a large platter ousted on their head in Havana, Cuba. You see enslaved Afro Brazilian women hawking similar desserts on the streets of Rio and Bahia in Brazil. In the intersections of the main streets along the walls in lower town of Bahia there “fruit-sellers, venders of sausages, black-puddings, fried fish, oil, and sugar cakes,” writes the British traveler Maria Graham in the 1820s. Speaking now of Rio she goes on to say, “and for dainties [sugary deserts], from the noble to the slave, sweetmeats of every description, from the most delicate preserves and candies to the coarsest preparations” made with coconut “are swallowed wholesale.” One see’s similar scenes in sugar based plantation societies throughout the Americas with African American women making sugar based sweets out of the most plentiful and inexpensive ingredients they have on hand such as nuts and coconut. Here is a recipe for a Brazilian street venders product made with grated coconut, which is indigenous to South America, called Beijinhos de Coco or coconut kisses.
Beijinhos de Coco (Coconut Kisses) recipe
Ingredients
A can of sweetened condensed milk (vegans, I substitute plant based products for this and the other ingredients in this recipe)
2 egg yolks
1 tbsp butter or margarine
1 lb freshly grated coconut
1 tsp vanilla extract
Method
Mix all the ingredients together completely. Cook using a heavy saucepan and keep stirring until you see the bottom of the pan. Pour into a plate and let it cool completely. Grease your hands then make small balls, roll them in sugar and put them on small pieces of wax paper. Recipes makes 30 kisses.
Here is related link: http://www.thecapitolbaker.com/2010/08/coconut-laddoos.html
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