Coconut Batidos

Trev and I found a few batido recipes in his Delicious Drinks cookbook the other day. Batidos are sweet, cold Cuban milkshakes made with condensed milk -- which keeps indefinitely in a can in hot weather.

We tried mango and coconut -- the latter was the favorite. By the way, canned mangoes are quickly surpassing their fresh counterparts in my estimation. They're guaranteed ripe, they taste identical to fresh, and they keep for months on the shelf. Any time you want a mango, pop open a can and fish out a half. Not fresh or local, but so gratifying when you need an instant hit of the tropics in a recipe.

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