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

mound. Thicken liquid slightly and turn over rolls or serve separately. Garnish mound. Dairy butter may be used in place of raw nut butter. [Illustration: POACHED EGGS AND POACHERS] [Illustration: VARIEGATED MEAT, P. 186] =Savory Hash= Equal quantities mashed lentils and boiled rice or chopped potato, seasoned with sage or onion. Add water or cream and salt. A few soaked and chopped dried olives may be added to the hash. “The pea and the lentil are roasted in the Mediterranean countries and form there a regular article of food. In India peas are parched in hot sand. The chick-pea, as found by experiment, can be parched over coals in a few moments and thus be made edible. The taste reminds one of pop corn and roasted chestnuts. A slight bitterness is present, due, probably, to the skin which does not slip off in roasting as does the skin of the peanut. When this skin is removed before roasting, as it may be by a half hour’s soaking, the product is improved. “Our common split pea is also palatable when parched. Parched peas are too hard for any but the strongest teeth, and, as used in India, they are ground and cooked after parching. The roasted chick-pea is also used as a substitute for coffee.”--_Mary Hinman Abel, Farmers’ Bulletin No. 121, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture._ EGGS “Milk and eggs should not be classed with flesh meat. In some cases the use of eggs is beneficial.” “While their use will become more and more unsafe as disease in animals increases, they should not be discarded entirely, when other foods to supply the needed elements cannot be obtained. Great care, however, should be taken to obtain milk from healthy cows and eggs from healthy fowls that are well fed and well cared for.” Though eggs are, to some extent, stimulating, they do not contain the poisonous, excrementitious matter found in the flesh of dead animals; and no animal life is destroyed by their use. As eggs, at present, form so important a part of the Vegetarian dietary, care should be taken to