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

canned pineapple very dry, chop and add lemon juice and confectioner’s sugar, when fresh pineapple is not obtainable. =Imperial Filling= Spread layers of cake with jelly and the following: _Filling_-- 1 cup chopped raisins ½ cup chopped almonds ½ cup grated cocoanut white of 1 egg Beat white stiff, add other ingredients and spread. =Coffee Icing= Add confectioner’s sugar and vanilla to strong cereal coffee, with or without a little heavy cream. =Fig Jelly Filling= 1 lb. figs, chopped fine 1 cup sugar ½ cup boiling water Boil to a jelly, stirring constantly, or cook in double boiler until thick. =Prune Filling= Stew ½ lb. of prunes in a very little water, rub through colander or cut fine, add whites of 2 eggs beaten to a stiff froth with 2 tablespns. of sugar. =Nut and Raisin Filling= 1½ cup sugar ½ cup water white of 1 large or 2 small eggs 1 cup each of chopped or ground raisins and nut meats 1 teaspn. vanilla Boil sugar and water till the syrup will form a soft ball in cold water; pour it into the stiffly-beaten white of egg, add nuts and raisins and spread while warm between the layers. Raisins or nuts alone may be used. Shellbarks or butternuts are especially enjoyable. Figs or dates may be substituted for the raisins or for the nuts. =★ Cream Filling= 1 cup milk ⅓-½ cup sugar 2¼ tablespns. (¼ cup) flour 1 egg or 2 yolks, or 1 egg and yolk of another ½ teaspn. vanilla Mix sugar and flour dry, pour boiling milk over, boil up, turn over beaten eggs, stirring, return to fire and heat until creamy but do not boil; set dish at once into cold water, add flavoring. Use ½ tablespn. less of flour for Washington Pie, and ¼ cream (or a small piece of butter) in the milk. ½ cup of flour is sometimes used. Add cocoanut for a cocoanut cake. =Royal Filling and Icing= ¼ cup milk ¼ cup orange juice ¼ cup flour ½ cup sugar yolk of 1 egg oil from rind of half