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

cereal coffee 1 cup milk ⅔ cup sugar 4 eggs ½-1 teaspn. vanilla Strain coffee through cloth, mix with milk, sugar and eggs; cook like custard. Cool partly before adding vanilla; add gelatine and mold. Serve with unsweetened cream with cake or wafers. =Coffee Bavarian and Blanc Mange or Jellied Custard= May be molded in layers and served with a sweetened and vanilla flavored meringue or with whipped cream in roses. =★ Jellied Custard= ¼ oz. gelatine 1 cup water 3 cups rich milk 2 eggs 4-6 tablespns. sugar Cook custard, flavor if desired, add gelatine, mold. Serve with blueberry, grape or any suitable fruit juice, or with unsweetened cream, plain or whipped. Or, cook milk and yolks of eggs together, cool, add gelatine, and pour into whites beaten with sugar, chopping quickly together. Or, use ½ cup cream, whipped, instead of whites of eggs and 2½ cups of milk only. =Jellied Custard with Meringue= ¼ oz. gelatine 1 cup water 3 cups rich milk 4 yolks of eggs 4-6 tablespns. sugar flavoring Cook custard and cool; add vanilla and gelatine, mold. Just before serving, beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth with 2 or 3 tablespns. of sugar (powdered preferable). Add 1½-2½ tablespns. lemon juice, and heap by spoonfuls around the base of the mold. Serve at once. If preferred, 1 cup of milk may be used to cook the gelatine in after soaking, instead of water. =Marshmallow Pudding= ¼ oz. gelatine 1 cup water whites 3 eggs ½-¾ cup sugar ½ teaspn. vanilla Beat whites of eggs very stiff, add sugar gradually, beating, then vanilla, lastly the warm gelatine, chopping in quickly. Mold in shallow pan. Just before serving unmold and with hot, dry knife cut into cubes. Serve with cream, custard or fruit juice or use as garnish for other dishes. =Cream of Tomato and Carrot Jelly= ¼ oz. gelatine 3 cups rich milk 1 cup strained tomato 2 teaspns. salt 2 level teaspns. sugar ¾ cup carrot Soak gelatine in warm water, drain, cook in milk; add the tomato, sugar and salt with