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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Celery and Macaroni Stew

3 heads of white celery 1 pint of milk and water 1 bay leaf 1 1/2 gills Bechamel sauce Little pepper and salt 2 ounces macaroni A grate of nutmeg Trim and wash the celery, and boil it till tender with the bay leaf in the milk and water. Drain, and cut into short lengths. Cook the macaroni in boiling water; drain, and cut into short lengths also. Heat up the sauce, and add the celery and macaroni, with the seasoning, and let the whole simmer for fifteen minutes. Do not break the celery or macaroni, and serve very hot. CELERY STICKS 1 head of celery 1/2 a cream cheese Pepper, salt, mustard, cayenne and little chopped parsley 1 ounce butter Clean the celery, and cut the nicest white sticks into three lengths. Mix the butter, cheese and seasoning together and fill in the concaves with the mixture. Serve garnished with parsley.

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