Homemade Bounty Bars

What can you make with half a packet of desiccated coconut that's been hidden in the depths of the food cupboard for ages and is nearing it best before date? Make bounty bars of course. I made the mistake of plumping up the coconut by soaking it in milk for about an hour, it fell apart when I tried to form mounds, so I put the mush in a muslin cloth* gathered in the edges and squeezed the milk out of it, that did the trick, I added a few chopped glace cherries, bought during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II and enough condensed milk to sweeten and bind it all together. I hadn't any chocolate to coat them with so I sacrificed Carmen's Easter egg †, a half eaten Lindt monstrosity I smashed the remainder of it to bits and melted it in the microwave. Made 4.

Yes, that really is condensed milk.

A culinary triumph, served on a Poole pottery plate, a little hint as to where I'll be moving too.

* It was actually a dish cloth, a clean one of course.

† I have since bought her a replacement Easter egg, it cost a staggering £12 from Meg Morrison's, bleeding rob dogs.