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

½-¾ hour. May make small individual pies. _Sauce without Cream_--½ cup of raw nut butter maybe rubbed smooth and boiled up with the oyster broth and the cream omitted. With this, 1 teaspn. of celery salt may be used, or 3 level tablespns. chopped onion and 1 level teaspn. sage. Chopped parsley with either. 7 or 8 tablespns. of cracker dust may be used for thickening the sauce instead of flour. =Oyster Plant Pastry Pie= Cook oyster plant in small quantity of water, add salt when nearly tender, boil up well and drain; thicken liquor slightly, add a little butter and the cooked oyster plant. When cool, put into custard pie pan lined with pastry, cover, bake. Serve hot with celery stewed in tomato if desired. =Mushroom and Celery Pie--Rice or pastry crust= 1¼ qt. celery in inch lengths 1-1½ pt. mushrooms in quarters or eighths chopped parsley Cook and drain celery. Cook mushrooms 10-15 m. in salted water and drain. Arrange cooked celery and mushrooms in baking dish with parsley sprinkled between layers. Pour over the following sauce, cover with rice (as for rice and trumese pie) or pastry crust, bake. _Sauce_--5 tablespns. melted butter, 5½-6 tablespns. flour, the liquid drained from the mushrooms and celery with water to make 1 qt., salt. Rub the butter and flour together, pour boiling liquid over, boil up well, add salt. =Carrot Pie. Excellent= 1 qt. cooked sliced carrots chopped parsley _Sauce_-- 5 tablespns. oil or melted butter 2 tablespns. chopped onion 5½ tablespns. flour 1 qt. boiling water Simmer, not brown, onion in oil, add flour and water, pour into baking dish with carrots and parsley and cover with any desired crust--universal, pastry, rice, mashed potato, dressing, or mashed dried green peas. With the last, one would have a hearty meat dish. =Potato Pie= Use potatoes instead of carrots and more onion in preceding recipe. Celery may be used (without simmering in oil) instead of the onion. ⅓-½ cup of raw nut butter, instead of the oil, rubbed smooth with water and boiled with it would give a meaty flavor with