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

cup lemon juice 1½ cup water ½ teaspn. ground coriander seed 1 tablespn. butter Mix, boil, put into crusts. Grape juice may be used for part of the water with or without the coriander seed. =Sour Cream Mince--Annie Carter=--1 cup sour cream, 1 tablespn. flour, 1 egg, ¾ cup sugar, 1 cup seedless raisins, steamed; two crusts. Bake just long enough to set the egg and bake the crust. The crust need not be quite as rich as for fruit pies. One tablespn. of lemon juice may be used. May use chopped seeded raisins or English currants in place of seedless raisins. The sugar may be flavored with oil of lemon. =Fresh Peach=--Put sliced ripe peaches in baked crust; sprinkle with sugar and cover with whipped cream or an uncooked meringue. Serve at once. Cut pie before covering with cream or meringue. _Mellow bananas_ may be substituted for peaches and a very delicate sprinkling of sugar used. =Prune=--Pitted stewed prunes in quarters, flour, salt and a little sugar. Do not make filling too thick as it is solid. Two crusts. Delicious. =Prune=--Thick prune pulp, slightly sweetened or not, one crust, strips of pastry over top if convenient. May have meringue with or without grated lemon rind, or may be covered with whipped cream after cutting. =Raisin=--1 cup chopped raisins, 1 cup water, ½ cup brown sugar, 1 tablespn. flour. Mix sugar and flour, pour boiling water over, boil up well, add raisins, cool, bake between two crusts. Vanilla or lemon flavoring may be used. =Raisin Meringue=--Add yolks of 2 eggs to filling of raisin pie with or without 1 tablespn. of butter a moment before removing from the fire; when heated, add vanilla, turn into baked crust and meringue with the 2 whites of eggs. Milk may be used instead of water and white sugar instead of brown. =Raisin Lemon= 1⅓ cup water ¾-⅞ cup sugar 1 level tablespn. butter ¾ cup seeded raisins 4 tablespns. flour 3 tablespns. lemon juice and pulp grated rind of 1 lemon 1 egg, salt Mix sugar and flour, pour boiling water over, add