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

be delicious. =Dutch Apple=--Fill a buttered pie plate with apples without sugar, dot with bits of butter, cover with a rather thick crust and bake. Invert on dessert plate, sprinkle with sugar (mixed with coriander if liked) and serve hot. =Phoebe’s, Delicious=--Nearly fill the crust with dry, nicely seasoned, fresh apple sauce; cover with a ⅓ inch layer of raspberry jam which has been beaten so as to spread well; bake. The jam may be put on after the pie is baked, or both apple and jam may be put into a baked crust. The pie may have a meringue, but Phoebe’s didn’t.--It may also be baked with two crusts. =Rhubarb and Apple=--1¼ qt. rhubarb, ⅓-½ cup thick, slightly sweetened, strained apple sauce, 1½ cup sugar, 2½ tablespns. flour, ¼ teaspn. salt. Mix apple sauce with rhubarb and proceed as in apple pie. =Blueberry=--Scant 1 qt. berries, 1 tablespn. flour, ¼ teaspn. salt. A little water if berries are dry. =Mock Cherry=--1½ cup cranberries, ¾ cup seeded raisins, ¾ cup sugar, 1½ tablespn. flour, a pinch of salt, 1¼ cup boiling water. Mix sugar, flour and salt; pour boiling water over and boil up. Cut cranberries in halves and raisins in small pieces with the shears and add to syrup. 2 crusts. =Cranberry and Raisin=--1 cup ground cranberries (2 cups before grinding), 1 cup ground raisins (1½ cup before grinding), 1 cup sugar, 1 tablespn. flour, 1¼ cup water, salt. Mix sugar, flour and salt; pour boiling water over, stirring, boil up, add cranberries and raisins. 2 crusts, or strips of pastry across top. =Cranberry=--1 lb. (4⅔ cups) whole berries, 1½ cup sugar, 1 tablespn. flour, ¼-½ cup water, 2 crusts. =Stewed Cranberry=--Fill crust with thick, strained, stewed cranberries, sweetened. Put strips of crust across the top in squares or diamonds. =Currant=--1 qt. ripe red currants, 1¼ cup sugar, 3 or 4 tablespns. flour, ¼ teaspn. salt, 2 crusts. Bake well. =Black Currant=--Black currants with sugar, flour, salt and water make a delicious pie. They should not be laid too thick in the plate. A layer of thin slices of