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

come with the tablets and preparations sold for that purpose. As milk is a hearty food it should not be taken with other heavy foods such as nuts, legumes or eggs, but with bread, zwieback, crackers or rolls, parched or popped corn and other cereals. Clear milk is coagulated by the gastric juice and should be taken slowly, in small amounts, so that the acid may have a chance to mix with it and form the curd in small particles. When drank rapidly, the curd will form in large pieces and be difficult of digestion, often causing distress and disease. Some can digest sweet milk better if an acid is taken with it, but, as a rule, such individuals would better take nut milk and cream, preferably nuts, and plenty of juicy fruits. In fact, considering the increase of disease among animals, it were better for us all to be learning more and more how to prepare foods without milk and eggs, _educating_ ourselves and others _away_ from them. The next thing to copper or re-tinned vessels for heating milk to the boiling point without scorching, is a nice clean iron frying pan or round bottomed iron kettle. I have used a stone milk crock. Brush the inside of whatever dish milk is to be heated in with oil or butter, as a still further precaution against scorching, for scorched milk is unusable. Wash all utensils used for milk first in cold water, then with warm soapsuds, and then scald with perfectly boiling water. Wipe with clean dry towels and if possible put them in the sun. When hot water is poured into vessels before they are washed clean, the casein is glued into the crevices, ready to make mischief with the next lot of milk. Condensed milk, containing cane sugar, is thought by many physicians to be the cause of the great increase of diabetes, especially among children. A pinch of salt added to rather thin cream will cause it to whip up light. Whip cream in a pitcher, the inner cup of a double boiler or even in