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

115, or all fresh mushrooms in trumese and mushrooms à la crême p. 165. =Fresh Mushrooms--Under Glass Globe with Cream= Cover the bottom of a porcelain dish with toast. On the toast pile mushrooms, gills down, several rows high, sprinkling with salt. Pour ⅓-½ cup of cream on to the mushrooms, cover with the globe or bell and simmer on the top of the stove 20-30 m. The cover is removed after the plate is placed before the guest. This quantity is served for luncheon when the dish is the principal one of the meal. For a single course, a smaller portion of toast would be required and not more than 4 or 5 mushroom caps. The dishes may be baked in the oven. =Mushroom Timbales= 1 cup stewed mushrooms in pieces 1 tablespn. butter 1 tablespn. chopped onion 1 tablespn. chopped parsley 2 level tablespns. flour salt ½ cup consommé or milk 2 yolks of eggs 1 tablespn. milk Simmer onion in butter, add parsley, flour, and milk or consommé. Remove from fire, add yolks of eggs beaten with the tablespn. of milk, salt and mushrooms. Fill small molds which have been garnished as desired, bake in pan of water 20 m. or until set. Unmold on to rounds of toast, surround with thick mushroom sauce. The timbales may be made of canned mushrooms and served with rich cream sauce. =Mushroom and Oyster Plant Pie= _Sauce_-- 2½ tablespns. melted butter 2½-3 tablespns. flour 1½ cup water (part mushroom liquor if any) ½ cup cream salt Mix the flour and butter, pour boiling water over, stirring, add cream and salt. Put cooked oyster plant and mushrooms in pieces (⅔ oyster plant, ⅓ mushrooms), 1 pt. in all, into baking dish. Pour sauce over, cover with universal or pastry crust and proceed as in trumese pie. Substitute stewed potatoes for oyster plant with either crust, or cover with a thin crust of mashed lentils, or use celery in place of oyster plant and cover with a rice crust. =★ Cream of Fresh Mushroom Soup= Cook chopped imperfect caps and stems of