Re: Coconut Oil

limey wrote on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:55:56 GMT:

l> Steve Wertz wrote:
??>> I bought a quart of coconut oil to try and duplicate the
??>> recipe for a sauce from a local dive. This wasn't the
??>> missing mystery ingredient.
??>>
??>> I know it coconut oil makes for great popcorn, and I plan
??>> to make some shallot oil for some SE asian recipes.
??>>
??>> What else is coconut oil especially good for?
??>>
??>> -sw

l> Well, not exactly what you're looking for, but long ago I
l> was stationed in Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan women used it
l> on their hair as a hair dressing. (They had beautiful
l> hair, too.)

Ah, memories of vacations at the beach with the kids, surrounded
by people marinading or basting themselves with coconut oil!
Smelled like a cookie factory.

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
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James Silverton said:

Ah, memories of vacations at the beach with the kids, surrounded
by people marinading or basting themselves with coconut oil!
Smelled like a cookie factory.

Coconut oil is usually an ingredient in suntan lotion. At least
when I was younger. I loved the smell of the stuff.

-sw

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Quoted message said:

James Silverton said:

Ah, memories of vacations at the beach with the kids, surrounded
by people marinading or basting themselves with coconut oil!
Smelled like a cookie factory.

Coconut oil is usually an ingredient in suntan lotion. At least
when I was younger. I loved the smell of the stuff.

-sw

My daughter brought back some vanilla essence from the Dominican. Now I
know what that elusive flavour is --- coconut. Weird. Not a bad weird,
but strange since it's meant to be vanilla.

e.