What do I do with the coconut water?

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I bought a coconut, drained the water out. now what do I do with the water? do I use it to make cocnut cream pie?

-- Cindi Albers (redhen@fiberia.com), February 18, 2001

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Response to What do I do with the cocnut water?

We used to just drink it, Cindi. Mom would get a coconut, hammer a nail through the "eyes", drain the "milk" out, then smash the nut with the hammer. The three of us children would argue about who got to drink it. I think Julie and I finally decided we'd just let our brother have it. Then mom would give us nut picks and we would pick the meat out of the shell pieces, and give them to her. Of course, we ate some too. It was always THE BEST just fresh out of the shell.

You could also try mixing it with pineapple juice and drinking it too.

-- Joy F (So.Central Wisconsin) (CatFlunky@excite.com), February 18, 2001.


Response to What do I do with the cocnut water?

Cindy, don't drink more than three or four coconuts worth of milk a day. Great laxative. Lived in Hawaii as a kid and eating coconuts and drinking the milk was one of our favorite pastimes. That and stealing sugar cane and pineapples off the farms.

JackD

-- JackD (jdenterprises@centurytel.net), February 18, 2001.


Response to What do I do with the cocnut water?

Having lived in Hawaii and had friends from many different Polynesian cultures, I would like to clear up a misnomer.

Actually the transparent liquid inside a coconut, is not, to many Polynesian cultures, considered the milk. It is called the coconut juice or coconut water. I loved that stuff and drank lots of it and then ate the slimy coconut meat afterwards.

The coconut milk is what you get when you take a young coconut, strip out the coconut meat from the inside and squeeze it. It is a whitish liquid and does resemble milk. I was always told to beware of ingesting too much of this.

Coconut meat on the inside of a coconut can range from very slimy when very young, to growing firmer as the coconut matures and dries. Also as the coconut matures the coconut water dries up, so you get more coconut water from a young coconut to less and less from an older coconut. The coconut meat is what we commonly see on our sweets and buy at the grocery stores in packages.

-- R. (thor610@yahoo.com), February 18, 2001.


freeze it to use as part of liquid in a coconut cake or as others suggested drink it!

-- irene seiler (brandyanspice@aol.com), April 05, 2002.

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