Place the milk, butter, sugar, and cocoa in a medium sized saucepan, and bring to a full rolling boil. Boil for one minute. Remove from heat, and stir in oats. Mix in coconut, if desired.
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Drop by teaspoonfuls onto waxed paper. Let stand until set. Quickies may be refrigerated to speed setting.
Recipe just did not work, they only partially set, put them in a container in the fridge overnight and just ended up with one big lump of brown gunk you had to eat with a spoon. Used long life milk so perhaps that impacted the setting time