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

eighths or slices. Cook in small quantity of water 10-15 m., add cream, or milk and butter, enough to moisten toast. Heat, serve on toast. =★ Creamed Mushrooms= Stew mushrooms in a larger quantity of water, add cream, and thicken to the consistency of very heavy cream. Serve in dainty shells of pastry crust, or on toast or wafers, surrounded with green peas or not. A small quantity of mushrooms will go a long way in this way. =Mushroom Stew= Add cooked fresh or dried mushrooms to thickened consommé. Serve over rice or macaroni or in rice border. =Stewed Canned Mushrooms= Drain mushrooms, if large cut into quarters and put into rich egg or cream sauce without further cooking. Canned mushrooms (except home canned) are esteemed more for the feeling between the teeth than for their flavor and are at their best in pies, scallops and creams. =Dried Mushrooms= Wash dried mushrooms well, soak 4-12 hours in water or milk, simmer for 5 m. only, in the liquid in which they were soaked. Use in soups, sauces or stews, in small quantities, as the flavor is very rich. =Pickled Mushrooms= Soak mushrooms pickled in salt, for 24 hours, changing the water several times; drain, and if to be cooked in batter dry between the folds of a towel. Use cutlets of trumese batter with them, or with soaked dried mushrooms. =Puff Balls= Pare and cut puff ball mushrooms into half-inch slices. Simmer in butter or olive oil, with or without dipping in egg, and season with salt. Or, stew and serve as other mushrooms. =Mushrooms in Rice Rings= Shape cups of steamed or boiled rice in muffin rings, fill with creamed mushrooms or Boundary Castle sauce, protose and mushrooms à la crême, thin, or with mushroom stew. =Sister McBurnie’s Chop Seuey= shredded cabbage shredded celery chopped onion mushrooms in quarters or eighths cream, salt a little butter if used Put into close covered vessel in oven, bake 25-35 m. Onion may be omitted. =Mushrooms à la Crême= Use all mushrooms in recipe for celery and mushrooms à la crême p.