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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Scotch Oaten Cakes

2 cups oatmeal 1 cup flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons butter 1/2 cup or more of cold water Sift the flour, oatmeal and salt together, and chop the butter into it. Mix with cold water into a stiff dough. Knead and roll into very thin cakes. Roll out into a round piece and cut the circle into quarters. Bake in the toasting oven directly under, but not too near, the flame, for eight to ten minutes, until delicately browned on both sides.

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