The Laurel Health Cookery A Collection of Practical Suggestions and Recipes for the Preparation of Non-Flesh Foods in Palatable and Attractive Ways

=Breads, Leavened=, 424 Beadles, 443 Biscuit, Breakfast, 442 Potato, 441 Raised, 441 Split, 441 Boston Brown, 434 Buns, Currant, 443 Lemon, 443 Nut, 443 Plain, 442 Cakes, Buckwh...

White, graham and whole wheat are the flours most commonly used in making bread. White _bread_ flour is made from spring wheat, which is richer in gluten than winter wheat and i...

The very most important thing in making porridges is to have the liquid boiling when the cereal is put in. If it stops boiling while the grain is being added there will be a raw...

Thorough straining is necessary to make clear jelly. For the finest jelly, use first a double thickness of mosquito netting; then the same of cheese cloth, and lastly, one thick...

_Cleft_ rolls. Make dough into balls; when light, cut each roll across the top with a sharp knife, about 1 in. deep, or, once each side of the center, or, once each way, making...

Wash peas and put into a baking dish with 1 teaspn. of salt to each pint of peas and 2 to 2½ times the quantity of water. Cook on top of the stove until tender (about 1 hour), t...

Add ½ cup of milk with salt to 2 or 3 beaten eggs. Dip slices of stale bread or moistened zwieback in the mixture and brown delicately on both sides on moderately hot buttered g...

Layers of crumbs, thin slices of nutmese and tomato sauce or tomato cream sauce, or slices of tomato and a thick cream sauce; have sauce on top, sprinkle with crumbs, bake.

Many vegetables are delightful to the cultivated taste served plain with Brazil or other nuts. Thus we get the benefit of the fine delicate flavors in the different foods instea...

Pare and slice cucumbers in not too thin slices. Pass lemon juice, salt and oil with them. Some prefer them with salt and oil only; others with lemon juice and salt.

¼ oz. gelatine 1 cup water 1 cup cream, plain ½ teaspn. vanilla 2 teaspns. lemon juice in cup, pineapple juice to fill the cup whites of 4 eggs ¾ cup sugar 1 tablespn. lemon juice

Put together and bake same as nut and citron cake except for the nut meal. This makes 1 loaf or 2 small layers. 3 times the quantity makes 2 large square loaves, or 4 large layers.

1 qt. rich dark dry pumpkin 2 qts. milk 6 eggs 1-1½ cup sugar or ¾ cup sugar and ¼ cup molasses 1 teaspn. salt 1½ tablespn. browned flour No. 3 or 3-6 tablespns. browned flour N...

Wash, quarter and core but do not pare apples; lay cut side down in pudding dish, pour very little if any water over, cover close, bake until tender. Remove cover and dry out we...

Mix browned flour, tomato and salt, put into bean pot with the nuts and a large quantity of boiling water. Boil rapidly ½ hr., then bake in a slow oven 8-14 hours. Add boiling w...

Molasses cake baked in layers, with whipped cream between the layers and over the top, with or without a sprinkling of grated cocoanut, is considered a great treat in some house...

=Tomato=--Drain stewed tomatoes, season well with butter and salt, or salt only. Serve in and around omelet. Or, thick tomato pulp may be added to the egg mixture. Serve omelet...

Juicy fruit salads should be served in dainty glasses or cups; and a correspondingly dainty doily on the plate underneath the glass with a delicate flower or leaf by its side, l...

Soak rice in water for half an hour, add salt and oil, stir well and steam without stirring, ¾ to 1 hour. Press into small oiled molds. Set in a pan of hot water covered, for 10...

Pour boiling water over corn meal and salt in inner cup of double boiler; stir smooth, cook 1 hr., add oil, drop by spoonfuls on oiled griddle, dip fingers in cold water and pat...

Simmer hashed trumese in bouillon or consommé until just moist. Serve on toast, thin crackers or rice: or put trumese into cream sauce and serve on toast with or without a poach...

The bulk of the so-called “cereal” drinks on the market have some commercial coffee in them, as well as chicory. There are a few, however, made of combinations of grains, or of...

Pastry crust, prick with fork, cut in any desired shape, bake; spread with chopped almonds mixed with peach marmalade or any desired sweet or jelly and put two pieces together.

Put half the celery, onion, tomato, and salt into a baking dish in the order given, and repeat with the remaining half. Cover with small dice or coarse crumbs of bread. Turn a l...

Put blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, gooseberries, cranberries or any desired fruit in the bottom of a pudding dish; mix sugar, a little flour and salt together and add t...

Mix the sugar, flour and salt for each pie in a bowl by itself. When the bottom crust is on the pan, spread about half the sugar mixture over it, put in a generous quantity of a...

Cook cabbage and onion in the water 20-25 m. leaving ½ pt. of liquid. Blend butter and flour and pour hot milk over; boil, add cooked cabbage and chopped parsley. Heat. Serve.

_To Clear_--Add water for one quart only, cool, beat with the white and shell of one egg, set over a slow fire and stir often until the broth boils rapidly, then boil without st...

It is useless to try to follow any exact rule either by weight or measure for the proportion of moss to the milk, yet the preparation is simple. Take up a little in the fingers,...

Grind (not too fine) tart apples, put at once into boiling syrup of equal quantities of sugar and water, just enough to cook apples and leave dry. Do not stir. When thick, turn...

Wash spinach the same as other greens, p. 253. Cook in boiling salted water until tender, 10-30 m. Lift from the water with skimmer into a colander. (Save water for soups and sa...

Remove the pulp from lemons for pies and other uses by cutting them lengthwise in the middle of the sections and scraping each side of the membrane, or by cutting the lemon in h...

“Perfection in the art of cookery is attainable only by lengthened experience and careful study of the qualities of foods and the application of sauces and seasonings. _It is ch...

Read the Introduction and the General Directions at the beginning of the book and at the beginning of each chapter and subject first, for a better understanding of the recipes.

Mix salt and oil well, add lemon juice slowly, stirring, pour over salad, serve at once. If flavorings are used, mix them with the salt and oil before adding the lemon juice. My...

These meals may be easily changed to sugarless as well as starchless by substituting vegetables that contain no sugar for those that have some, and tart fruits for sweet ones.

The corrections noted in the book’s Errata have been applied to the text; the Errata section itself has been moved from after the Table of Contents to the end of the book.