Rub a half cupful of almond butter into one quart of whole wheat flour; mix, and add sufficient water to moisten; the dough must be very hard. Knead it for five minutes, pound with a potato masher for five minutes, and roll it into a very thin sheet. Sprinkle half of the sheet with either chopped dates, ground soaked figs or chopped raisins; fold over the other half, and with a rolling pin roll the two carefully together. With a sharp knife cut it into crackers two inches wide and three inches long, and bake in a moderate oven until brown and crisp, about twenty minutes.

Peanut or pine nut butter may be substituted for almond butter, and Graham flour may be substituted for whole wheat flour.

Eaten slowly at bedtime followed by a glass of water, they will frequently correct constipation.

Nut Souffle

Soak one pint of soft bread crumbs in one pint of cocoanut milk or water for fifteen minutes. Stir over the fire until perfectly smooth; take from the fire, add a half pint of chopped pine or pecan nuts, the yolks of four eggs, a level teaspoonful of salt, a dash of pepper, and fold in carefully the well-beaten whites of the eggs. Turn this into a baking dish and bake in a quick oven twenty minutes.

This dish takes the place of both bread and meat, and may be given to children as the noonday meal. It is good in cases of rheumatism and gout.

This quantity is sufficient for four persons; for a single portion divide all the ingredients by four.

Water Chestnuts

These are really not nuts, but are classed with the nuts for the sake of convenience. They are the crisp vegetable ingredient in nearly all the rich stews made by the Chinese and Japanese cooks. In chemical composition they resemble closely the stachys and Jerusalem artichoke. Boiled in plain water.o.r in chicken stock, served with cream sauce, without thickening, they give variety to the long continued diet of the diabetic and the obese.

Mock Candy

Besides being a good candy for children, this mixture makes a nice filling for school sandwiches.

Put through a meat grinder a half pound of soaked figs, a half pound of seeded raisins, a half pound of stoned dates, a half pound of pine nuts, a half pound of pecan meats, a quarter of a pound of blanched almonds and a quarter of a pound of Brazilian or black walnuts. The better way to mix them is to put a few at a time into the meat chopper, and by the time the last are ground they are well mixed. With your hand work the mixture until it is a little soft, pack it into baking powder boxes or jelly tumblers, and stand it in a cold place to keep.

If this is to be made at once into caramels, roll it out in a sheet a half inch thick; cut it into caramels, wrap each in waxed paper and put them in a tin box for keeping.