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

tapioca in the syrup and pour over drained canned fruit. Serve warm, with the juice of the fruit (to which a little lemon juice and sugar have been added if needed), thickened a trifle with corn starch or arrowroot; or, cold with whipped cream, custard or other sauce. =Fig=--Steam figs until tender (30-35 m.), cut in pieces with shears and stir into tapioca cooked in the syrup. Serve warm or cold with orange egg cream sauce. =Prune=--Cook tapioca in syrup with a little lemon juice if desired, and add quartered, slightly sweetened stewed prunes. Serve with rich juice of prunes, cream or whipped cream. =Apple Tapioca Pudding--Pearl or Flake Tapioca= Soak ½ cup pearl or flake tapioca in 5 cups of warm water for 3 hours or over night. Pour over whole pared cored apples in pudding dish. Cover dish and bake until apples are tender and tapioca transparent. Serve warm with hard, foamy or creamy sauce, or cold with sweetened whipped cream. If preferred, ¾-1 cup of sugar may be added to the soaked tapioca and the pudding served plain or with unsweetened custard sauce or cream. When the pudding is to be served at the table, it may be covered with a meringue while hot and delicately browned in the oven. Use with other fruits the same as granular tapioca. =★ Sister Bramhall’s Tapioca Cream= ⅓ cup granular (½ cup pearl or flake) tapioca ½-¾ cup sugar 1 qt. milk 1 teaspn. vanilla, or no flavoring ½ teaspn. salt Put all together in pudding dish, soak for 1 hour, stirring; then set in oven and bake slowly, stirring, until tapioca is transparent; brown over top at last; serve warm or cold. May bake without stirring for 2 hrs. The pudding may be cooked entirely in a double boiler. 1 cup of raisins may be used for variety. =Sago Cream--instead of Ice Cream= ¾ cup sago ¾ cup sugar 3 cups heavy cream or 4 of thinner cream 2 cups water with heavy cream, or 1 with thinner 1½ teaspn. vanilla Soak sago in warm water 1-3 hrs., add