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

boiler 1 hour, add salt, serve. If necessary, thicken a trifle. =Cream of Dried Corn and Carrot=--Add cooked grated carrots to corn and milk in above recipe and heat. Delicious. =Cream of Leek=--Boil sliced leeks to pulp or cook only until tender. =Cream of Lentil=--1 cup lentils cooked and rubbed through colander. 1½-2 qts. soup. No flour. May flavor with celery and onion. =Cream of Onion=--Cook sliced onions in salted water. Do not strain. Nice thickened with tapioca instead of flour. =Cream of Oyster Plant=--Cook sliced oyster plant in water until just tender, not soft; add salt, simmer 5 m. Add cream and more water if necessary. Or, grind oyster plant before cooking. May thicken a trifle. =Cream of Peas, dry=--Canadian, dried green, split or chick; 1 cup to 1½-2 qts. of soup. Cook, rub through colander; milk, or cream and water. No flour. Celery or onion flavor or not. =Cream of Potato, or Sweet Potato=--1½-2 qts. of milk, or cream and water, for each pint of mashed potato. Flavor with onion, celery salt or bay leaf. =Cream of Spinach=--Use a very small proportion of cooked spinach rubbed through a colander, with rich milk, or with cream and the water in which the spinach was boiled. Whipped cream may be added just before serving. Thicken with tapioca sometimes. =Cream of String Beans=--Cook beans in small pieces, add rich milk, thicken with flour or tapioca. =Cream of Succotash Soup= Use 1 part of beans to 2 parts of corn; put either, neither or both through a colander; add rich milk and salt. For variety, flavor the soup with celery or onion or both, and add a sprinkling of chopped parsley just before serving. =Cream of Corn and Celery Soup= Equal quantities cooked celery and corn, rich milk thickened a trifle if desired, salt. =Cream of Corn and Peas Soup= 1 cup dried green peas 1 cup canned corn 2 or 3 stalks of celery milk Cook peas, rub through colander, corn also if preferred. Add milk to make of the right consistency. Put over fire in double boiler with salt and