Vegetarian supplement to Scientific feeding

by Dora C. C. L. Roper

Soak some stale bread in cold water, press it out thoroughly and stir smooth over the fire, with some butter or fat. When cool, add salt and several well beaten eggs or some flour, and syrup, mix well and add any desired flavoring or sugar. Tie in a cloth and boil for two hours in salt water, or with white beans. Serve with stewed fruit.

RICE PUDDING.

Cook some rice as directed for water or milk rice. When cool, cream some butter with an equal amount of sugar, and add several well beaten eggs, lemon rind, cinnamon, a little bread crumbs, some raisins or currants and some sweet or sour cream, or melted butter. Bake for about an hour.

SAGO PUDDING.

Soak the sago and cook with one-half water and one-half milk. Finish like rice pudding.

The foregoing recipes for cakes and puddings can serve as substitute for meat as well as for dessert. They are more nourishing than sponge-cakes and soft puddings which consist largely of starch and sugar.

FLOUR BREAD PUDDING.

Mix over the fire two cups of flour with two cups of milk or water, and three-fourths of a cup of melted butter, until the batter loosens from the bottom of the saucepan. Let it cool a little and add the yolks of four eggs, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, two cups of bread crumbs, salt and mace. Then beat the whites of four eggs, mix and add flavoring extract. Pour the mixture into an oiled pudding pan and steam two and one-half hours. Serve with stewed plums, pears, or cherries.

CORN MEAL PUDDING.

Bring two cups of milk to a boil, and mix four cups of yellow or white corn meal with a pint of cold water. Stir into the boiling milk and add two tablespoonfuls of butter. When it is thick, remove from the fire and cool. Cream half a cup of butter with three-fourths cup of sugar, add the yolks of four or five eggs, salt, lemon rind, several grated bitter almonds, and the beaten whites of the eggs. Put into a pudding pan and steam from two to two and one-half hours. In place of bitter almonds use lemon juice, if desired. Serve with white or red wine sauce, or with stewed apricots or cranberries.