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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Roxbury Cakes

3 1/2 cups pastry flour 1/2 cup sugar 1/4 cup butter 3/4 cup raisins 1/2 cup milk 1 3/4 cups flour 1/2 cup molasses Nutmeg 1/2 cup English walnut meats 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon soda Cream the butter, add the sugar gradually, then the molasses and milk. Mix, and sift the dry ingredients, and add to the first mixture. Add lastly the raisins chopped fine, and bake in gem pans. This should make about twenty small cakes. Ice with chocolate icing, putting just a little of the icing in the center of each cake, and an English walnut meat pressed down upon that.

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