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

meat substitutes should be made without starch. 3 cups raw Spanish nut meal, or coarse butter 1 cup cornstarch 3-3½ teaspns. salt 1 cup cold water 3 cups boiling water Stir dry ingredients with the cold water, then add the boiling water gradually, stirring. Cook the same as nutmese. Use a little more water with Virginia nuts. See suggestion p. 155, for using starch washed out of gluten dough, in place of corn starch. NUTMESE DISHES Nutmese of nuts only, is suitable to serve with breads of all kinds instead of butter. It takes the place of cheese nicely with apple pie and may be served sliced, with Chili, apple, grape and different fruit sauces or with jelly. =Nutmese Cottage Cheese= Take the broken pieces of nutmese left from slicing, press them through a wire strainer, add salt and enough lemon juice to give the slight tartness of cottage cheese. Use plenty of salt and not too much lemon juice. Mix well and press through the strainer again. Shape into balls and roll in chopped parsley. Carefully =Broiled Nutmese= may be served with creamed parsnips or celery on toast, or with mint sauce, tomato and tomato cream sauce, and nearly all the sauces and vegetables with which trumese is served. It is especially nice with green peas. =Tomato Nutmese and Eggs= Lay ¼ inch slices of broiled tomato nutmese on thin pieces of toast of the same shape and place a soft poached egg on each. Garnish with parsley. Use soft scrambled eggs instead of poached sometimes. =Nutmese and Rice with Peas Sauce= Add chopped parsley and cooked green peas to tomato cream sauce which has been flavored with onion, and pour sauce over a low, rocky mound of rice surrounded by broiled nutmese. =Nutmese with Baked Beans= Score nutmese of the desired shape, on one side. Broil the scored side carefully and set in the oven to just warm through. Place in center of platter, pile baked beans around and garnish with parsley and lemon. Nutmese made in an oblong, square-cornered tin would be very suitable in shape. String