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

in Bean Sauce= Mash a few of the stewed beans, add cream, or milk and butter with the water from the beans, more salt if necessary; blend well, pour over remainder of beans, heat. Serve on toast or as preferred. =Stewed Lentils--for people with good digestion= Cook lentils with raw nut butter, onion, garlic, browned flour and salt, until tender, rich and juicy. Serve without mashing with boiled rice or with some of the large sizes of macaroni, cooked. Lentils may be cooked plain with salt and seasoned with cream or butter at the last. =Ragout of Chick Peas--especially delicious= Soak the peas over night. Cook and cook and cook in the water they were soaked in. When about half done add garlic, onion, a very little browned flour, tomato and salt. Serve with dressing, rice, dumplings--steamed or baked, or on toast. =Cabbage Leaf Rolls of Lentils= 1 cup lentils 1 cup rice 2 tablespns. raw nut butter onion sage salt 1 loose head of cabbage a little tomato if desired Boil cabbage leaves in salted water 5-8 m., or sprinkle with salt, pour boiling water over and let stand 20 m. to ½ hour. Refresh with cold water, drain. Cook lentils till beginning to get tender but not until broken, drain and save water. Cook rice in salted water until swollen but not soft (about 15 m.), drain if necessary and save the water. Mix lentils, rice, sage, chopped onion, raw nut butter and salt smooth with a little of the lentil water. Put a tablespoonful of this mixture in the center of each cabbage leaf. Fold the sides of the leaf over and roll into croquette shape. Pack close in layers in an oiled baking dish. (A flaring granite pan would do nicely.) Pour the rice water and lentil water over, with a little tomato if desired, and add enough boiling, slightly salted water to cover. Press a plate over the rolls, cover and bake ¾ to 1 hour in a moderate oven. Drain, save liquid, remove plate, invert dish on to chop tray, leaving rolls in a