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

butter and raisins, cook; when raisins look plump, remove from fire, add remaining ingredients and bake between 2 crusts. The raisins may be chopped. =Rhubarb=--1-1¼ qt. rhubarb, in ¾ in. pieces, 1½ cup sugar, 2½ tablespns. flour, ¼ teaspn. salt. =Rhubarb and Pineapple= 1 large pt. rhubarb 1⅔ cup shredded pineapple 1¼ cup sugar 2½ tablespns. flour ¼ teaspn. salt =Elizabeth’s Rhubarb=--1 cup chopped rhubarb, ½ cup molasses, ½ cup chopped or ground raisins. 2 crusts. =Rhubarb and Strawberry= 1 pt. fresh rhubarb 1 rounded pt. strawberries 1¼ cup sugar 2 tablespns. corn starch (or 3 tablespns. of flour) ¼ teaspn. salt =Canned Rhubarb= Scant quart canned rhubarb 1¼ cup sugar 2 tablespns. flour ¼ teaspn. salt =Strawberry Meringue=--Put thin layer of universal crust in shallow pudding dish or deep pie pan; when light bake; fill with berries, sprinkle with sugar, and meringue with the whites of 2 or 3 eggs, and 1½ tablespn. sugar. =Green Tomato--Harriet= 1 qt. sliced tomatoes 1 cup sugar 3 tablespns. flour ½ teaspn. salt Select tomatoes that are just going to turn, or that may be a little white, or that may have a trifle of red on one side, not those that are at all ripe, yet not very green ones. Make pie in pudding dish or shallow granite basin and do not have the crust come quite to the top. Bake very slowly, after the first 10 m., for 2 hours. The pie is not good unless baked slowly for a long time. LEMON PIES =Lemon Pie--Granella Crust= 4 tablespns. lemon juice 1½ cup sugar 1⅓ cup water 5 or 6 tablespns. flour yolks 2 or 3 eggs ¼ teaspn. salt Flavor sugar with oil of lemons (p. 27), add flour, mixing well, and pour the perfectly boiling water over, stirring until smooth; boil, add the slightly beaten yolks, lemon juice and salt; heat just enough to set the egg. Turn the filling into the baked granella crust and spread quickly around the edges so as to touch the top of the crust. _Meringue_--Whites of 2 eggs, ½ tablespn. lemon juice, 2-3