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

a double boiler until rice is tender and milk absorbed. Add yolks of 4 eggs or 2 whole eggs, and 2-4 tablespns. sugar. Cool, shape, egg, crumb, bake. Serve with strawberry or fig sauce, or with quince, elderberry, or some not too tart jelly. May cook rice in half milk and half water, and if desired add a little butter. Sugar may be omitted. =Rice and Fig Croquettes= Add 1 cup of fine cut or ground fresh figs to the preceding recipe, with less or no sugar: 1 teaspn. of vanilla also if desired, and serve with orange or cream sauce as dessert at luncheon. =Bread Croquettes= 1 tablespn. butter 2 tablespns. flour 1 cup milk 1 egg salt bread crumbs Heat, do not brown, butter, add flour and stir smooth; pour milk in hot, when smooth, remove from fire, add salt and egg and enough bread crumbs to shape. Cool, shape into balls or rolls, bake. Serve as a garnish or as a separate dish with or without sauce. The mixture may be flavored with some of the sweet herbs or minced onion. =Oyster Plant Patties= 1 pt. cooked pulp of oyster plant 2 tablespns. cream, with oyster liquor to make a large half-cup (or 1 tablespn. butter with milk and the liquor) 2 eggs, or about ¼ cup cracker crumbs salt Mix all ingredients; sprinkle buttered shells or scallop dishes with crumbs, put a spoonful of the mixture in each and sprinkle tops of patties with crumbs. Bake in moderate oven on top grate 5-10 m., serve at once. Patties may be served as a second course at dinner, or for a luncheon dish. For _pulp_, grind about three bunches of oyster plant through the medium cutter of a food chopper. Cook in a small amount of water until just tender, adding salt about 5 m. before removing from the fire. =Asparagus en Croustade= Cut the top crust from gems baked in flat oblong, or round gem pans, and remove the soft inside part. Warm in oven. Have ready one cup hot cooked asparagus tips. _Sauce_-- 3 tablespns.