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
Most of my readers have received great benefit from eating wholemeal
bread instead of white, and they may all gain further good it they
will use Allinson wholemeal flour in place of white for all cooking
purposes. Those who are at all constipated, or who suffer from piles,
varicose veins, varicocele, back pain, &c., should never use white
flour in cooking. Those who are inclined to stoutness should use
wholemeal flour rather than white. Hygienists and health-reformers
should not permit white flour to enter their houses, unless it is to
make bill-stickers' paste or some like stuff. Toothless children must
not be given any food but milk and water until they cut at least two
teeth.
Every kind of cookery can be done with wholemeal flour. In making
ordinary white sauce or vegetable sauce, this is how we make it; Chop
fine some onion or parsley; boil in a small quantity of water, stir in
wholemeal flour and milk, add a little pepper and salt, thin with hot
water, and thus produce a sauce that helps down vegetables and
potatoes. In making a brown sauce we put a little butter or olive oil
in the frying-pan; let it bubble and sputter, dredge in Allinson
wholemeal flour, stir it round with a knife until browned, add boiling
water, pepper, salt, a little ketchup, and you then have a nice brown
sauce for many dishes. If we wish to make it very tasty we fry a
finely chopped onion first and add that to it. White sweet sauce is
made from wholemeal flour, milk, sugar, and a little cinnamon, cloves,
lemon juice, vanilla, or other flavouring. Yorkshire puddings, Norfolk
dumplings, batter puddings, and such puddings can all be made with
wholemeal flour, and are more nourishing and healthy, and do not lie
so heavy as those made from white flour. Pancakes can be made from
wholemeal flour just as well as from white.
All kinds of pastry, pie-crusts, under crusts, &c., are best made from
Allinson wholemeal, and if much butter, lard, or dripping is used they
will lie just as heavy, and cause heartburn just as much as those made
with white flour. There is a substitute for pie-crusts that is very
tasty, and not at all harmful. We call it "batter," and it can be used
for savoury dishes as well as sweet ones.
SAVOURY DISHES MADE WITH BATTER.
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