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

Cover berries with water, boil till the skins break, strain, add 1 cup of sugar to each pint of juice; boil, bottle, seal. _For Red_, cook strained tomato to a thick pulp; or slice a bright red raw beet into cold water and let it stand on the stove where it will heat slowly to a little below the boiling point and strain. _For Green_, bruise parsley, spinach, chervil, onion tops, chives, tarragon or lettuce, with or without lemon, and press out the juice for coloring. _For Yellow_, steep saffron in boiling water for ½-1 hour and strain when cold. When these colorings are not suitable, the so-called “fruit colors” for sale at the groceries may be used. Use only enough for delicate shades. ARRANGEMENT AND GARNISHING OF SALADS The arrangement and garnishing of salads depends largely upon individual taste and skill in the use of things at hand, and is a matter of importance. The garnish should be a suitable one and should harmonize with the ingredients of the salad. For example, a dainty flower or vine with a delicate fruit salad, and slices or fancy shapes of vegetables with true meat salads. Red apple, or tomato cups may be used for light colored salads, and yellow tomato, or green and white apple cups for bright ones. Juicy fruit salads should be served in dainty glasses or cups; and a correspondingly dainty doily on the plate underneath the glass with a delicate flower or leaf by its side, leaves nothing to be desired. * * * * * “We do not attain perfection by striving to do something out of the common. “Perfection is acquired by doing the common things uncommonly well.”--_Mowry._ FRUITS FRUITS--FRESH “Man has always thrived as he has eaten freely of fruits.”--_H. Irving Hancock._ “The best food on this planet is ripe fruit. The healthiest people on the globe are the fruit eaters of tropical countries. The great muscular Maoris of New Zealand are a frugiverous race. I have seen a boat crew of these great chocolate colored giants that would outrow the ‘crack’ university crews