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

the cocoanut. Dried grated cocoanut of your own preparing is preferable. 2 cups of cocoanut may be used. If a sweet wafer is desired, add sugar to the dough or sprinkle with sugar before baking. =Fruit Bars= Roll any desired dough thin, cut into 3-3½ in. strips, spread one half of the width with stoned dates, halved raisins, steamed figs, sweet prunes or any suitable fruit, which has been cut into strips with the shears; moisten the edge next to the fruit, fold the other half of the dough over, pressing the edges well together, and roll lightly to flatten the bar; cut with a sharp knife into 2½-3 in. lengths. Add nuts to make fruit and nut bars, or make nut bars sometimes. The dough may be slightly sweetened. =Crackers with Nuts= Brush baked crackers with beaten white of egg and spread thick with chopped or coarse ground nuts (English walnuts or pecans or both). Put into warm oven to dry. These crackers are nice to serve with fruit or vegetable salads, or with cereal coffee or tea-hygiene. =Graham Crackers--Sweet= 2 cups each graham and white flour ½ cup butter or oil ¼ cup sugar ½ teaspn. salt cold water for stiff dough Mix well together, run through food cutter (with finest knife) 5 or 6 times, roll about ⅛ in. thick, prick with fork, cut into any desired shape, set in cold place for 2 hrs. or longer, bake in moderate oven. Omit sugar for unsweetened crackers. Dough may be kneaded, picking it apart into small pieces, if food cutter is not at hand. Or, crackers are very good made up without any kneading, when rested in cold place. =★ Sour Cream Crackers= ⅔ cup thick sour cream 2 tablespns. oil ½ teaspn. salt pastry flour for rather stiff dough Rest and finish as other crackers. If the cream is not rich, use more oil. =Nut Wafers= ½-1 cup fine chopped or ground nuts 1 pt. flour, graham or white, or half of each ¼ teaspn. salt water for stiff dough Finish the same as graham crackers. Nice