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

the potatoes and onions. A mashed lentil crust, when desired, adds to the nutritive value of the pie. =Stuffed Winter Squash= ½-⅔ of a medium sized, nice shaped winter squash 3 cups dry bread crumbs sliced onion garlic if desired chopped parsley _Sauce_-- 3 tablespns. oil or melted butter 3-3½ tablespns. flour 3 cups rich consommé Heat oil, add flour, then consommé, and salt if necessary. Saw squash in two in the middle, or a little above the middle as required. Scrape out the seeds and stringy pulp and rub with salt. Let stand while preparing other ingredients; drain before stuffing. Mix crumbs and flavorings, leaving out a little parsley: pour part or all of the sauce over the crumb mixture. (The quantity of the sauce will depend on the quality of the squash. If it is a dry one it will probably take it all, and if it is quite a large one, more of all the stuffing will be required). Fill the squash, sprinkle with crumbs or corn meal, and chopped parsley. Set into covered baker or cover with waxed paper and bake until squash is tender which will be in 2-3 hrs. according to the squash. Give it plenty of time. Serve on chop tray and send plain onion sauce to be served with it. Coarse chopped nuts may be put into the dressing and the top of the squash garnished after baking with halves of nuts. This makes a beautiful as well as palatable dish. =Baked Squash with Celery Stuffing= Make a thick sauce of rich milk and browned flour No. 1. Add to it chopped onion, minced garlic if liked, a few coarse bread crumbs and a large quantity of fine sliced celery. Fill the squash which has been prepared as in the preceding recipe, sprinkle with crumbs, cover with slices of tomato from which the seeds have been removed, or with pieces of canned tomato. Finish with chopped parsley; bake covered until time to brown over the top. Nuts may be used with this also, and unbrowned flour in the sauce if preferred. A