Meatless Cookery

Published as America rationed meat for the war, this is a whole cuisine built without it — nut roasts and cheese soufflés, dasheen and okra soups, vegetable gelatine, and a chapter on what to do with the whites of eggs.

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Banana and Orange Cream

4 bananas 2 oranges 1 tablespoon powdered vegetable gelatine 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 teacup of sugar 1/2 pint cream Soak the gelatine in half a cup of cold water over night, and next morning dissolve it in the same quantity of boiling water. Peel the bananas, and rub them through a sieve, add the juice and pulp of the oranges, and the lemon juice and sugar. Mix all well together, and add to the gelatine. Set the mixture in a cool place, until it begins to stiffen. Whip the cream till stiff, and stir all together; put into a mold, and let it stand on ice a few hours.

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