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

to the peanuts, add salt and finish cooking. Just before serving add 1 pt. of drained, canned peas. Heat well. Add more salt if necessary, and serve. Or, 1 pt. of fresh green peas may be cooked with the nuts at the last. Small new potatoes would be a suitable addition also. =★ Peanuts Baked like Beans= 1 lb. (¾ qt.) blanched peanuts ¼ cup strained tomato ½-1 tablespn. browned flour 1¼-1½ teaspn. salt 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 water without stirring, when necessary. When done the peanuts should be slightly juicy. Small dumplings steamed separately, may be served with baked peanuts sometimes. =Baked Peanuts--Lemon Apples= Pile peanuts in center of platter or chop tray. Surround with lemon apples, garnish with grape leaves and tendrils or with foliage plant leaves. =Peanuts with Noodles or Vermicelli= Cook peanuts in bouillon with bay leaf and onions. Just before serving, add cooked noodles or vermicelli. =Nut Chinese Stew= Use boiled peanuts instead of nutmese and raw nut butter, and rice (not too much) in place of potato, in Nut Irish Stew. =Peanut Gumbo= Simmer sliced or chopped onion in butter; add 1 pt. stewed okra; simmer 5-10 m. Add 1 pt. strained tomato, then ¾-1 qt. of baked or boiled peanuts. Turn into a double boiler and add ½ cup boiled rice. Heat 15-20 m. =Hot Pot of Peanuts= Put layers of sliced onion, sliced potatoes and boiled peanuts into baking dish with salt and a slight sprinkling of sage. Cover the top with halved potatoes. Stir a little raw nut butter with water and pour over all. Cover with a plate or close fitting cover and bake 2 hours. Remove cover and brown. =Peanut Hashes= Cooked peanuts, chopped very little if any, may be used in place of trumese with potatoes or rice for hash. Bread, cracker or zwieback crumbs may be substituted for potato or rice. =Peanut German Chowder= 1 pt. cooked