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

or Other Fruit Pudding= Make ingredients for universal crust into stiff batter or soft dough, according to the juiciness of the fruit to be used with it; mix and beat well, let rise; add dried or fresh blueberries (huckleberries), cranberries, raspberries, blackberries, fresh or dried or drained canned, cherries, or any convenient fruit; put into well oiled mold, cover or not and steam 1-1½ hour. Serve with cream and sugar, or with foamy, hard or cocoanut sauce. Or, make a dough stiff enough to knead, shape into biscuit, fold and press berries in while shaping, lay balls on pie pan, let rise and steam. Or, make into one large loaf, and steam. Figs or dates cut with shears into small pieces may be used and the pudding served with orange or any of the sauces already given. =★ Plain Steamed Pudding= Steam sweetened or unsweetened universal crust in large or individual molds ¾-1 hour; serve with molasses, maple, berry, foamy or creamy sauce. =★ Dutch Boiled or Steamed Pudding= Make universal crust with only ¼ cup of oil to the cup of liquid and mix as stiff as bread dough. Put into a well buttered double cheese cloth, let rise, drop into perfectly boiling water and boil 30-40 m. Remove from cloth, split and lay on dessert tray, spread with butter, cover with nice flavored molasses and serve hot. Try it before you condemn it. The crust may be steamed instead of boiled, but it is beautifully light when boiled. Molasses, or maple or brown sugar syrup may be heated with a little butter and served over pudding as sauce. =Cottage Pudding= Bake rather stiff, slightly sweetened universal crust and serve with Annie’s Strawberry (“_o_” of Hard Sauce Variations) or any preferred sauce. Add fine cut, drained stewed prunes to pudding occasionally before baking and serve with a sauce made of the juice. =Pear Cobbler= 2 rounded qts. halved or quartered pears ¾ cup sugar 2½-3 tablespns. flour a trifle of salt 1½ cup water Sprinkle mixed sugar, flour and salt over pears in pudding dish, pour water over and