This recipe comes from my NZ Edmonds book

Coconut Ice

3 cups Icing Sugar
1/2 cup milk
25gms butter
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup coconut
few drops of red food colouring

Put icing sugar, milk, butter and salt into a saucepan. Heat gently, stirring constantly until sugar dissolves. Bring to the boil. Do not stir. Let mixture boil until the soft ball stage. add coconut. Remove mixture from the heat and allow to cool for 10 minutes. Divide mixture in half. Add a few drops of food colouring to one portion and beat until mixture starts to thicken. Pour into a buttered tin. Beat the white portion until it starts to thicken. Spread this mixture on top of pink mixture. Allow to cool. Cut into squares.

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Dee