On Wednesday, May 1, 1996 at 4:30:00 PM UTC+9:30, Marilyn Bolton wrote:
> I live in Canada and wish to make the Australian recipe "Chocolate
> Crackles" which calls for copha - a hard fat made from coconut I think.
> Does anyone have an idea for a substitution? Crisco works, but tastes
> awful in this recipe. Thanks,
>
> Marilyn

Seems people are still looking this up and replying to it :-) as i was looking for a substitute for copha, and i live in australia.

Copha is very bad for you, i remember the stuff in the 70's an 80's as a kid.
just this Christmas i made a bunch of white Christmas crackles.
after making them i read the label "horror" "Hydrogenated coconut oil"
it is essentially a block of pure trans fat because of the hydrogenation.