Meatless Cookery: With Special Reference to Diet for Heart Disease, Blood Pressure and Autointoxication

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E. P. Dutton, 1914 - Cooking for the sick - 352 pages

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Page 109 - Pour into a buttered baking dish, set in a pan of hot water, and bake in a moderate oven (350° F) for 30 to 40 minutes or until firm in center.
Page 15 - A loaf of bread,' the Walrus said, 'Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed Now if you're ready, Oysters dear, We can begin to feed.
Page 307 - Break the eggs into a buttered baking dish or into ramekins and cook them in a hot oven until they begin to turn white around the edge. Cover with the mixture of crumbs, cheese, and seasonings. Brown in a very hot oven. In preparing this dish it is essential that the oven be very hot or the egg will be too much cooked by the time the cheese is brown.
Page 299 - tis but the lees And settlings of a melancholy blood; 810 But this will cure all straight, one sip of this Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight Beyond the bliss of dreams.
Page 354 - Forms, eg, white (albumen) of eggs, curd (casein) of milk, lean meat, gluten of wheat, etc. Fats Are stored as fat eg, fat of meat, butter, olive oil, oils of corn and wheat, etc.
Page 83 - A large variety of rolls, suitable for serving as the main dish at dinner, may be made by combining legumes (beans of various kinds, cowpeas, lentils, or peas) with cottage cheese, and adding bread crumbs to make the mixture thick enough to form into a roll. Beans are usually mashed, but peas or small Lima beans may be combined whole with bread crumbs and...
Page 125 - Grease gem tins thoroughly, allowing to each about i teaspoon of fat from the roast pork. Bake in a moderate oven, basting occasionally with the drippings of the pork. Corn-Meal Mush with Fruit. — Corn-meal mush is often served with dried fruits, particularly with figs and dates. In preparing such fruit for use 'with the mush, it is usually necessary to soften it. This can easily be accomplished by washing the fruit and then heating it in a slow oven. As a result of the heat the water remaining...
Page 354 - ... meat, gluten of wheat, etc. Fats Are stored as fat eg, fat of meat, butter, olive oil, oils of corn and wheat, etc. Carbohydrates Are transformed into fat. . . . eg, sugar, starch, etc.
Page 27 - WHEAT). i cup yellow corn meal. 1 cup peanut butter. 1 teaspoon salt. cups water. Put the meal into a shallow pan, heat in the oven until it is a delicate brown, stirring frequently. Mix the peanut butter, water, and salt, and heat. While this mixture is hot, stir in the meal, which also should be hot. Beat thoroughly. The dough should be of such consistency that it can be dropped from a spoon. Bake in small cakes in an ungreased pan. This makes 16 biscuits. PEANUT MUFFINS. } cup...
Page 24 - Boiling water Scald the meal. Add the salt and shortening, and, when the mixture is cool, form it into oblong cakes, adding more water if necessary. Wrap the cakes in cabbage leaves, or place one cabbage leaf under the cakes and one over them, and cover them with hot ashes. Hoecake* — Hoecakes are made out of cornmeal, water and salt. They were originally baked before an open fire on a board which, for convenience, had a long handle attached to it. At present they are cooked slowly and on both...

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