Natural Foods Cookbook: A Good Cook...Ten Talents by Dr. Frank J. Hurd

An excerpt from A Good Cook...Ten Talents by Dr. Frank J. Hurd a natural foods cookbook and nutrition guideline.

A GOOD COOK . . . TEN TALENTS. By Dr. Frank J. Hurd and Rosaline Hurd. Chisholm, Minn. (privately printed), 1968. Available from: Dr. and Mrs. Hurd, Box 86, A-Route 1, Chisholm, Minn. 55719.

About the book: A natural foods cookbook and nutrition manual. Mrs. Hurd includes her award-winning meal from the "Mrs. America Contest," as well as a large number of delicious and unusual hints and recipes. Beautiful color photographs.

From the book: Let the table be made inviting and attractive, as it is supplied with the good things which God has so bountifully bestowed.

Fanny Salad (Fruit doll)

1/2 pear 1 banana

1/2 peach berries

soy cream pieces of apple

Arrange fruit on individual salad plates using:

Head--Pear half small end down

Body--Peach half rounded side up

Arms--Banana sliced in half

Skirt--Triangular mound of berries

Hair--Berries set in soy whipped cream

Eyes--2 blueberries

Mouth--Piece of red apple

Feet--2 dabs of soy cream

Communion Wafers (150 people)

2 cups sifted 100%

3/8 cup oil (6 tbs.)

whole wheat flour

1/2 cup pure water

1/2 tsp. salt

Sift flour with salt again. Blend oil and cold water. Pour over flour and mix into soft ball. Knead a few minutes. Roll out very thin. Mark off with a dull knife into 1" squares. Bake in moderate oven till golden brown.