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

added to cold dressing. In substituting sour cream for sweet, use 1-1½ tablespn. only of lemon juice. =★ Nut Dressing--no eggs= 2 slightly rounded tablespns. Brazil, almond, pine nut or roasted or unroasted peanut butter ⅓-½ cup water ½ teaspn. salt 1-1½ tablespn. lemon juice Rub butter smooth with water, cook just a moment, stirring. Remove from fire, add salt and lemon juice, cool. Some flavoring is an improvement with the unroasted peanut butter. Roasted peanut butter dressing and improved mayonnaise dressing may be combined with a very pleasing effect. Use from ½-¾ cup strained stewed tomato in place of the water, and ¾ teaspn. of salt, for Nut Tomato Dressing. =★ Almond Butter Dressing= Add 2 tablespns. of sugar to the nut dressing made with almond butter and you have one of the most delightful fruit salad dressings. =Rhubarb Salad Dressing= While the liberal use of rhubarb is not to be recommended on account of the oxalic acid it contains, it affords variety in dressings and has the advantage of always being at hand in the country when one gets out of lemons. 3 large or 4 small eggs ¼ cup oil ½ cup prepared rhubarb ½-⅔ teaspn. salt Stew rhubarb without peeling, with not more than one tablespoon of water to the quart of rhubarb. Rub through a fine colander or sieve, mix in the proportions given, with the other ingredients and cook the same as improved mayonnaise dressing. Green gooseberries prepared in the same way may be used in the place of rhubarb. =Olive Dressing= Make “No Oil” dressing with 1½ only, tablespn. lemon juice and just before serving sprinkle over it two tablespns. coarse chopped ripe olives. =Tomato Dressing= Excellent on apples, string beans, celery, cabbage and lettuce, on peas croquettes, and for decorating. 3 large eggs ¾ cup thick tomato pulp ¼ cup oil 3 tablespns. lemon juice 1-1½ teaspn. salt Drain juice from stewed tomatoes, rub pulp through strainer or fine colander, combine with other ingredients and cook as improved mayonnaise dressing. =Orange Dressing= For suitable fruit salads. 1-1½ cup sugar 1 cup water