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

and when it comes to the boiling point let it just simmer for 30-35 m. without removing the cover. It may be necessary to very carefully place an asbestos pad under the kettle during the latter part of the cooking. Serve with dumplings around edge of platter, and trumese with gravy in center. The dumplings may be steamed on a pie pan (perforated if convenient) and laid over the filling which has been baked in a pudding dish as for trumese pie. A nicely seasoned trumese stew may be served with a border of small steamed dumplings, and other varieties of pot pie may be made according to taste and convenience. =★ Trumese Boiled Dinner--New England Style= Raw nut butter, a little browned flour and tomato, salt, carrots in 1-2 in. lengths, according to thickness, turnips in sections or thick slices, cabbage in quarters or eighths according to size, 1 beet (white if possible), pared and cut into four pieces, onions, whole, cut at right angles ⅓ of the way up from the root end, potatoes pared and cut into equal sizes, winter squash in large pieces, pared, slices of broiled trumese, parsley. Oil the bottom of the kettle. Mix in it the nut butter, browned flour, salt and tomato, adding as much boiling water as necessary to cook the dinner. When the liquid is boiling put in the cabbage, carrots, turnips and beet. In about an hour, add the onions; then in ¾ of an hour the potatoes, with the squash laid inside down over the whole. When all are done, if you have a very large platter, lay pieces of squash around the edge with cabbage overlapping and the other vegetables in the center, with slices of broiled trumese around and sprays of parsley for garnish. The liquid remaining in the kettle, with a little water added if necessary, may be strained and served as gravy for the vegetables. The more nearly dry the vegetables can cook without scorching the better, _but do not let them scorch_. The squash need not be used, but it would not be