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

5 hours; grind through nut butter cutter, or press through fine colander; add other ingredients, mix well, steam 1½-2 hrs. =Almond Confection= ½ lb. almond butter ½ level teaspn. salt 5⅓ tablespns. banana pulp 3 tablespns. water ⅔ cup fine cut citron 16 candied cherries cut fine Bake 1-2 hours (according to size of loaves) in slow oven. Cherries and citron may be ground through food cutter--finest knife. ⅔ cup very finely-cut raisins and ½ cup hickory nut meats, in pieces, may be used instead of citron and cherries. =★ Nesselrode Confection--Peanut= ½ lb. raw Virginia peanut butter 5⅓ tablespns. banana pulp 4 tablespns. water ½ teaspn. salt 3 tablespns. raisins cut fine with shears 1½ tablespn. well washed and dried currants 1½ tablespn. fine cut citron 2 tablespns. pieces hickory nut, black or English walnut meats Mix. Bake 1½-2 hours in very slow, just warm, oven, on pad. TRUMESE Many years ago when experimenting with gluten washed from wheat, the thought came to me that it would be a good thing if it could be combined with nuts, as the nuts would supply the oil lacking in the gluten. From former experiments I knew it would be a difficult problem, but it was finally solved and has resulted in giving to the world a valuable food product, which gives me great joy. I give directions (the results of my own experimenting) for making this food as perfectly as it can be made in our homes without the aid of special machinery. Whether it pays to make it or not depends on the value of our time or whether we can procure similar foods all ready prepared. (Similar manufactured foods on the market are called “protose,” “nutfoda” and “nut cero”, according to where they are made). A part of the process will be entirely new to many but it is not at all difficult, and if directions are carefully followed the result will be success and soon the making of a quantity of “trumese,” as I have called it for convenience, will not be considered a greater task than baking