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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Scalloped Dasheen

4 medium-sized dasheen 1 cup milk 1 1/2 tablespoons butter 1 tablespoon flour 1 tablespoon cracker crumbs 1 teaspoon salt Wash and scrub the dasheen, boil, and slice. Butter a baking dish, and put in a layer of sliced dasheen, sprinkle with salt and flour, and dot with butter. Add another layer of dasheen and the other ingredients, finishing with the flour and butter on top. Pour on the milk, and sprinkle cracker crumbs or toasted bread crumbs on the top, and bake in a moderate oven about one-half hour. The quantity of milk and butter will vary according to the size of the dasheen.

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