On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 23:25:35 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> On 02/07/2012 10:51 PM, sf wrote:
> >> Before I could easily find coconut milk, I could find blocks of
> >> coconut cream, so my first experiments with SE Asian cookery were
> >> done with that.
> >
> > By "blocks" do you mean frozen?
> |
>
> It is more like cakes of soap. You cut off a junk and crush it and mix
> it with hot water. It is not quite as good as canned coconut milk but it
> is a lot less wasteful. I tried it a couple months ago and it wasn't
> bad. The recipe in which I use most often use coconut milk uses only
> half a can. For less than the cost of a can of coconut milk I can get a
> box of the dried stuff that will do 6-8 batches of that recipe.

Wow, *solid* cream??? I could say I've never seen it... but this is
the first time I've even heard of it. We aren't actually talking
about coconut oil or butter, right?

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