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

boiling water over meal, add salt, oil and yolk of egg; cool, add beaten white and bake in oiled pan. Use a little less water for Rhode Island meal. =Crumbs and Corn Bread= 1 pt. hot milk ½ cup stale bread crumbs 2 cups white corn meal 2 eggs 1½ tablespn. oil or melted butter 1 teaspn. salt Pour boiling milk over corn meal, stir well, add oil, salt and crumbs; cool, add beaten yolks of eggs, then stiffly-beaten whites. Bake in oiled pie pans. Or, soak meal and crumbs in cold milk for several hours and add salt, oil and eggs as before. =★ The Laurel Brown Bread. Sr. Olive Jones Tracy= 1 qt. each of corn meal, rye meal and cold water 1½ cup molasses 2 teaspns. salt 2 tablespns. oil 6 eggs Mix water, salt, molasses, oil and yolks of eggs and add mixed meals; then stiffly-beaten whites of eggs. Steam 3 hrs., bake in slow oven ½ hr. 1 qt. of thin cream may be used in place of oil and water. Halved, seeded raisins may be added occasionally or fine cut steamed prunes or broken pieces of nuts. =Crumb Brown Bread--no eggs or yeast= 1 cup granular corn meal or 1½ of Rhode Island meal ½ cup rye meal ¾ cup molasses 1 teaspn. salt 2 cups water 2½ cups (not too fine) dry bread crumbs Mix and steam 3 hrs. 2 cups of granella in place of the crumbs is better still. ½ cup sugar with ½ cup more of water may be used in place of the molasses. Cereal coffee may be used for the liquid, or a little browned flour may be mixed with the meal. =★ Johnny Cake= 2½ cups granular corn meal 3 tablespns. oil or melted butter salt about 1½ cup milk Mix; rest 1 hr. or longer in cold place, bake in iron skillet in quick oven. =Southern Johnny Cakes= ½ cup each fine hominy, rice and rice flour, salt, water, milk. Cook rice and hominy in 2 cups of water, each. Add ½-1 cup milk, salt and