Recipes of Popular and Not-So-Popular Foods

COCO MACAROONS

3/4 cup condensed milk
1/2 cup margarine
3/4 cup white sugar

3 eggs
2 cups dessicated coconut
1 tsp. vanilla or any flavor desired
50 pcs. small paper baking cups

1 c chopped pili nuts
1 tbsp: honey
1 c condensed milk
1 tbsp. almond extract or dayap peel

3 cups chopped pineapple
1 cup mashed papaya
calamansi juice
sugar

INGREDIENTS

1 cup grated macapuno

2 cups of water

1/4 cup of sugar

1 pandan leaf

How does one make nata de coco at home from scratch? Here’s a Philippine how-to from the 1980s.

Ingredients:

1 coconut

1 cup glacial acetic acid or strong vinegar

4 cups sugar (refined)

40 cups water

10 cups mother liquor (available at Philcoa)