Dr. Allinson's cookery book, comprising many valuable vegetarian recipesAllinson, T. R. (Thomas Richard)
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Dr. Allinson's cookery book, comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes
Allinson, T. R. (Thomas Richard)
Vegetarian cooking
Of cooked dinners, the simplest is that composed of potatoes baked,
steamed, or boiled in their skins, eaten with another vegetable,
sauce, and the wholemeal bread. Baked potatoes are the most wholesome,
and their skins should always be eaten; steamed potatoes are next;
whilst boiled ones, especially if peeled, are not nearly so good. Any
seasonable vegetable may be steamed and eaten with the potatoes, such
as cauliflower, cabbage, sprouts, broccoli, carrot, turnip, beetroot,
parsnips, or boiled celery, or onions. Recipes for the sauces used
with this course will be found in another part of the book; they may
be parsley, onion, caper, tomato, or brown gravy sauce. This dinner
may be varied by adding to it a poached, fried, or boiled egg. As a
second course, baked apples, or stewed fresh fruit and bread may be
eaten; or Allinson bread pudding, or rice, sago, tapioca, or macaroni
pudding with stewed fruit. Persons troubled with piles, varicose
veins, varicocele, or constipation must avoid this dinner as much as
possible. If they do eat it they must be sure to eat the skins of the
potatoes, and take the Allinson bread pudding or bread and fruit
afterwards, avoiding puddings of rice, sago, tapioca, or macaroni.
IV.
EVENING MEAL.
Evening meal or tea meal should be the last meal at which solid food
is eaten. It should always be a light one, and the later it is eaten
the less substantial it should be. Heavy or hard work after tea is no
excuse for a supper. This meal must be taken at least three hours
before retiring. From 4 to 6 oz. of Allinson wholemeal bread may be
allowed with a poached or lightly boiled egg, a salad, or fruit, or
some kind of green food. The fluid drunk may be Brunak, cocoa, milk
and water, bran tea, or even plain water, boiled and taken cool. Those
who are restless at night, nervous, or sleepless must not drink tea at
this meal. Fruit in the evening is not considered good, and when taken
it should be cooked rather than raw. Boiled celery will be found to be
lighter on the stomach at this meal than the raw vegetable. When it is
boiled, as little water as possible should be used; the water that the
celery is boiled in may be thickened with Allinson fine wheatmeal,
made into sauce, and poured over the cooked celery; by this means we
do not loose the valuable salts dissolved out of the food by boiling.
Mustard and cress, watercress, radishes, and spring onions may be
eaten if the evening meal is taken 4 or 5 hours before going to bed.
Those who are away from home all day, and who take their food to their
work may have some kind of milk pudding at this meal. Wheatmeal
blancmange, or cold milk pudding may occasionally be eaten those who
are costive will find a boiled onion or some braized onions very
useful. Boil the onion in as little water as possible and serve up
with the liquor it is boiled in. To prepare braized onions, fry them
first until nicely brown, using butter or olive oil, then add a cupful
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