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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Chestnut Pie No. 1

1 pound of chestnuts 2 ounces butter 3 ounces macaroni 2 tablespoons sauce 1 tablespoon rusk crumbs 1 tablespoon flour Throw the chestnuts into boiling water for half an hour; take them out a few at a time, and skin them; pass them through a nut mill or sieve. Cook the macaroni in one pint of milk, drain, and cut up into small pieces. Make a sauce of the milk it was boiled in with the flour and butter. Grease a pie dish, and put a layer of macaroni at the bottom, then a layer of the sauce, then put the chestnuts. Add the rest of the sauce, and put a thin layer of macaroni and rusk crumbs on the top. Put in the oven for half an hour to brown.

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