Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages: Including a System of Vegetable Cookery

especially when baked, stewed, or in some other way cooked. As pies are thus objectionable, and are, withal, a mongrel race, partaking of the nature both of bread and fruit, and yet, as such, unfit for the company of either, I will almost omit them. I will only mention two or three. RECEIPT 1.--Squashes, boiled, mashed, strained, and mixed with milk or milk and water, in small quantity, may be made into a tolerable pie. They may rest on a thick layer of Indian meal. RECEIPT 2.--Pumpkins may be made into pies in a similar manner; but in general they are not so sweet as squashes. RECEIPT 3.--Potato pie: Cut potatoes into squares, with one or two turnips sliced; add milk or cream, just to cover them; salt a little, and cover them with a bread crust. Sweet potatoes make far better pies than any other kind. Almost any thing may be made into pies. Plain apple pies--so plain as to become mere apple sauce--are far from being very objectionable. See the next Class of Foods. CLASS II.--FRUITS. So far as fruits, at least in an uncooked state, have been used as food, they have chiefly been regarded as a dessert, or at most as a condiment. Until within a few years, few regarded them as a principal article--as standing next to bread in point of importance. In treating of these substances as food, I shall simply divide them into Domestic and Foreign. DIVISION I.--DOMESTIC FRUITS. SECTION A.--_The large fruits--Apple, Pear, Peach, Quince, etc._ RECEIPT 1.--The apple. May be baked in tin pans, or in a common bake pan. The sweet apple requires a more intense heat than the sour. The skin may be removed before baking, but it is better to have it remain. The best apple pie in the world is a baked apple. RECEIPT 2.--It may be roasted before the fire, by being buried in ashes, or by throwing it upon hot coals, and quickly turning it. The last process is sometimes called _hunting_ it. RECEIPT 3.--It may be boiled, either in water alone, or in water