poonful India gum
1 teaspoonful baking powder
1/2 teaspoonful salt
3 tablespoonfuls mineral oil
1/2 grain saccharin
Hot water

Makes 12 crackers about 4 inches by 4 inches and 1/8 inch thick
(resembling Graham crackers).

Mix all dry ingredients. Add mineral oil and saccharin dissolved in a
small amount of water. Then add sufficient hot water to make a soft
dough. Spread on a baking sheet or in flat baking pans and cut into
twelve wafers. Bake in a slow oven until dry.

These crackers have practically no food value.

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Soya Manna may be secured from Vitae Health Food Company, 364 Roy
Street, Seattle, Washington.

Soya Manna muffins may be substituted for hepco cakes in any of the
following recipes:

** OLMSTED BRANCAKES

(_Recipe 41_)

3 cupfuls bran, washed
2 eggs
2 egg yolks
1/4 teaspoonful salt
50 grams lard or crisco, melted
180 grams water
1/2 teaspoonful baking powder

Mix ingredients in order given and bake in a moderate oven. This
recipe makes 18 muffins. Food value of 6 muffins, 1 gram carbohydrate,
5 grams protein, 23 grams fat.

** SOYA MANNA MUFFINS

(_Recipe 42_)

2 eggs
60 grams cream--20%
140 grams Soya Manna
20 grams butter
1/2 teaspoonful baking powder
100 grams water

Beat eggs, add cream and then flour, beating all the time. Add water
and melted butter. Mold into 12 cakes and bake. Each cake contains 6
grams protein, 6 grams fat: approximately 75 calories.

** NOODLE SOUP

(_Recipe 43_)

1/2 pint broth--clear
1 egg noodle
5 grams butter
Few grains salt and pepper

Beat eggs until stiff and bake in 5 grams of butter as an omelet; let
cool, cut into strips as noodles. Heat broth and add noodles. If
desired, add vegetables, cut in cubes, using such variety and quantity
as give flavor to soup adding their food value to diet. Food value 6
grams protein, 10 grains fat.

** CHICKEN SUPREME

(_Recipe 44_)

50 grams chicken weighed cooked
1/2 egg
50 grams milk
25 grams celery
Few grains salt and pepper

Beat egg slightly, add chicken, cut in small pieces, milk salt and
pepper. Put in mold, set in pan of hot water and bake in moderate oven
until firm. Food value 4 grams carbohydrate, 18 grams protein, 13
grams fat.

** SALISBURY STEAK

(_Recipe 45_)

75 grams steak--fat, weighed uncooked
25 grams onion, uncooked
Few grains salt and pepper

Grind t