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

Bake in moderate oven until bubbling all through and delicately browned on top. We sometimes use a little garlic, and sometimes a little cream with a very little strained tomato in the sauce. Another is made with the following sauce and finished the same as the preceding: _Sauce No. 2_--Rub ⅞ cup pastry flour smooth with water; pour it gradually into 1 pt. of boiling milk, stirring until smooth. Pour this over 2 beaten eggs or yolks only. Add 1 teaspn. each chopped onion and parsley, and ¾-1 teaspn. salt. The sauce must be very stiff or the character of the dish is spoiled. A tablespn. of butter may be added when the sauce is taken from the fire, if desired richer. =Nutmese and Oyster Plant in Shells= Use nutmese and oyster plant in place of trumese and mushrooms, in Trumese and Mushrooms à la Crême, and the liquor in which the oyster plant was cooked instead of water in the sauce. =Scallop of Nutmese and Tomato= Layers of crumbs, thin slices of nutmese and tomato sauce or tomato cream sauce, or slices of tomato and a thick cream sauce; have sauce on top, sprinkle with crumbs, bake. Use chopped or grated onion with tomato if desired. Sauce Imperial may be used. =★ Nutmese and Corn= Place nicely seasoned, canned or grated fresh corn in layers with dice or small pieces of nutmese. Sprinkle with cracker dust or browned flour No. 1. Heat in moderate oven. This simple dish is very pleasing. =Nutmese Pie with Potato Crust= Prepare nutmese pie the same as trumese pie, p. 167. Cover with nicely seasoned mashed potato. Pour a little cream, oil or melted butter over and bake until top is delicately browned. Sprinkle with chopped parsley, or, chopped parsley may be mixed with the potato. Universal or rice crust may be used. =Hashed Potato Crust for Nutmese= Use sauce No. 9 with nutmese and cover with well seasoned hashed or hashed creamed potatoes and brown in oven. =Nutmese and Potato Pie with Pastry Crust= Use sauce 43 or 14 with or without sage