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

pineapples. Prepare gelatine with 1 cup of water and add more to make 1½ cup. Cook sugar and 2½ cups of water together for 5 m. and add to gelatine. When nearly cool, combine with pineapple and lemon juice; cool; stir in freezer for 15 m. Add whites of eggs beaten with powdered sugar and finish freezing. Ripen. =Mina’s Lemon and Orange Sherbets= _Lemon_-- 4 lemons 4 oranges 1 lb. sugar 1 qt. water whites of 4, or less, eggs ⅛ oz. of vegetable gelatine _Orange_-- 10 oranges 1 lemon 1 pt. sugar 1 qt. water whites of 4, or less, eggs ⅛ oz. vegetable gelatine Follow directions for Grape Sherbet. =Frozen Strawberries= 1 qt. berries 2 cups sugar 3 or 4 tablespns. lemon juice 1 qt. water Add 1 cup of sugar and the lemon juice to well mashed berries. Let stand in ice box 1-2 hours. Boil water and remaining sugar together for 5 m., cool, add to berry mixture, freeze, ripen. Serve plain or with whipped cream. =Frozen Peaches= 1 qt., in pieces, of nice ripe peaches 1-1½ cup sugar 1 qt. water 1-2 cups cream Rub measured peaches through colander; add cold syrup made by boiling sugar and water together for 10 m. Freeze. Stir in cream whipped and slightly sweetened, when dasher is removed. Repack and ripen. =Frappés= Frappés are partly frozen mixtures of fruit juices, pulps or fine grated fruits and when not too sweet are excellent in fevers and are often served in place of a drink or a sherbet to well people. Of course they are served in glasses. CEREALS “The grains, with fruits, nuts and vegetables contain all the nutritive properties necessary to make good blood.” “Those who eat flesh are eating grains and vegetables at second-hand; for the animal receives from these things the nutrition that produces growth.” “The life that was in the grains and vegetables passes into the eater. We receive it by eating the flesh of the animal. How much better to get it direct, by eating the food that God provided for our use.” “Grains used