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

salt, 1 teaspn. vanilla. Mix flour, salt and sugar, put into oiled saucepan, pour boiling milk over, stirring until smooth, boil, add yolks of eggs, just heat, add vanilla, turn into baked granella or pastry crust. Meringue. With some brands of pastry flour, a scant measure only will be required. Thin slices of banana may be laid on the baked crust before the filling is put in, for banana flavor. =Cocoanut Cream--Famous=--Same as cream pie with ¾ cup sugar only and about ¾ cup desiccated cocoanut. (If cocoanut is fresh grated, use 1 cup sugar.) Add cocoanut just before putting filling into crust, reserving enough to sprinkle the top of the meringue before baking. Do not brown the meringue, just heat it until it puffs up and possibly tints the tips of the cocoanut. =Nut Cream=--Use chopped hickory or other nuts in place of cocoanut in Cocoanut Cream Pie. =★ Farina Cream=--Scant pt. rich milk, 1 tablespn. Hecker’s, 1½ tablespn. Am. Cereal Co’s farina, ⅓ cup sugar, 2 eggs (3 eggs enough for 2 pies), 1 teaspn. vanilla. Heat milk and sugar to boiling, sift in farina and cook for ¾-1 hour in double boiler; add slightly beaten yolks of eggs, just heat through, remove from fire, add flavoring, turn into baked granella or pastry crust. Meringue. Thin slices of banana may be used to flavor this pie also but it is delicious with no flavoring. Farina may be cooked 45 m. only, yolks and flavoring added and the filling be baked in the crust. =Cream of Rice= 1 qt. rich milk ⅓ cup rice ⅓ cup sugar pinch of salt Cook all together until thick and creamy. Turn into baked crust, brown delicately over the top, cool. Better the second day. Do not use with granella crust. =Caramel Cream=--Steep ¼-⅓ cup cereal coffee in milk of cream pie, in double boiler for 15 m., strain through 2 thicknesses of cheese cloth, add milk or cream to make 1½ pt. Finish the same as cream pie. Flavor with vanilla. The pie may be made with not very rich milk and