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

the chopped pulp of tomato in bottom of hollowed out tomatoes; then each tomato partly filled with dice of nutmese, covered with some of the mixture, and the top finished with a slice of ripe tomato or pieces of canned tomato. Bake covered 1½ hour or until tomatoes are tender. Serve on crisped large crackers with Tomato Cream sauce or Chili sauce sprinkled with chopped parsley. Use large tomatoes turned a little white. =Peeled Tomatoes Baked= Set whole peeled tomatoes in pudding dish, sprinkle generously with salt, cover with buttered crumbs and bake: or, omit crumbs and when tender, pour over them a thin cream sauce; sprinkle with parsley and leave in oven 10-15 m. =Rich Baked Sliced Tomatoes= Cut tomatoes that are not too ripe into thick slices (halves if thin), sprinkle with salt, chopped onion and garlic if liked, and pour a little melted butter over. Bake. After laying slices of tomato on to rounds of toast, add butter and flour to liquid in pan, then a little cream; boil up and pour around tomatoes on toast. Oil and nut milk or cream may be used instead of butter and dairy cream. =Broiled or Baked Tomatoes= Dip thick slices of not too ripe tomatoes in Mayonnaise or Improved Mayonnaise dressing, then in fine sifted bread or cracker crumbs. Brown in wire broiler or lay in agate pan and bake in hot oven. =Tomato Short Cake= Cover layers of split hot short cake crust of universal dough with Cream of Tomato sauce and serve. Or, prepare unstrained tomatoes the same as for sauce and serve over the crust. =Pilau--stewed rice= 1 cup rice 3-5 tablespns. oil or melted butter 1 onion 2-4 cups tomato 3-5 cups water 1½-2½ teaspns. salt Simmer sliced onion in oil (without browning), add salt, boiling water and rice. Cook until rice is about half done, then add tomato hot, and finish cooking slowly without stirring. If convenient, set into the oven after the tomato is added. When the larger quantity of tomato is used, the smaller quantity only of water will be required. 1½