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I have an older recipe from about 20 years ago that may be an even older "family" recipe.
It calls for "flaked" coconut but doesn't specify sweetened or unsweetened. I've always just used shredded sweetened coconut so I guess this will be coarser but I don't know about being sweetened or not. Here are the other ingredients if that helps:
4 oz. sweetened German chocolate
1/4 cup butter
12 oz. evap. milk
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 tbs cornstarch
1/8 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup flaked coconut (3 1/2 oz)
1 cup pecan halves
Is it sweet enough to use unsweetened coconut and be too sweet otherwise? I don't want to ruin it but I just have no idea!
If anyone has a similar recipe or thoughts, please let me know.
If 1.5 cups of sugar goes into one pie, I wouldn't use sweetened coconut. My blood sugar shot up just looking at 1.5 cups of sugar, yikes!
The combo sounds delicious though, kinda like German chocolate cake, in a pie.
I know what you mean....then I was looking at similar recipes that were called "Kentucky Bourbon Pie" that had chocolate and pecans and they had a cup of sugar and a cup of corn syrup! So that made me wonder....
a lady at my work made ky bourbon pie and brought it for a Christmas party ...yikes was it sweet . I almost could not eat it , but did not want to hurt her feelings so , no I ate it but boy my teeth hurt for a week LOL ...
a lady at my work made ky bourbon pie and brought it for a Christmas party ...yikes was it sweet . I almost could not eat it , but did not want to hurt her feelings so , no I ate it but boy my teeth hurt for a week LOL ...
That's good information...seems like some of the reviews of THOSE recipes said they cut back on some of the sugar...
If it is an older recipe and they wanted unsweetened coconut, they would have said unsweetened coconut.
In fact, with a new recipe, I would assume that if they wanted unsweetened coconut, they would have specified unsweetened. Regular old sweetened coconut from the baking ingredients aisle of the grocery store is the default setting.
Most recipes like this mean UNSWEETENED coconut flakes. If you can't find it, read the sugar content of the package and reduce your recipe by this amount.
Most recipes like this mean UNSWEETENED coconut flakes. If you can't find it, read the sugar content of the package and reduce your recipe by this amount.
I've also read that flaked coconut, because it is coarser gives a different consistency - so it may be more noticeable in a recipe like this or "chewier"? Any experience with this?
Why would you ruin pecan pie, or anything else, by using coconut? It even ruins stuff that's supposed to have it.
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