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A THOUSAND WAYS TO PLEASE A HUSBAND

A

THOUSAND WAYSTO PLEASE A HUSBAND

WITHBETTINA'S BEST RECIPES-BYLOUISE BENNETT WEAVERAND

HELEN COWLES LeCRON

The Romance of Cookery

AND HOUSEKEEPINGDecorations by

ELIZABETH COLBOURNE

A. L. BurtPublishers

Company

New

York

Copyright, 1917

by&itton Publishing Company, Ins*All Rights Reserved

Made in U.S. A.

m^""^mi.

^v^

ATo

DEDICATIONlittle

every other

bride

Who

has a ''BoF' to please,tried tried

And says she's

and tried and To cook with skill and ease.

And cant!

we

offer here as

guide

Bettinas Recipes!

To

her whose ''BoF'

is

prone

to

wearfair

A

sad and hungry looky

Because the maid he thought soIs

wellshe:

just

cant cook!

To

her

we say do

not despair;

Just try Bettincis

Bo ok I

Bettina's

Measurements Are All Level

lb.

= t = T= =C

cupteaspoontablespoon

pound

pt. == pint

B.P.

=

baking-powder

.

mSHsIESMMMMHMMEBMmMaiCHAPTERI

Home

II

III

IV

at Last Bettina's First Real Dinner Bettina's First Guest Bettina Gives a Luncheon

PAGE ii

1417 21

VVIVIIVIII

Bob Helps to Get Dinner Cousin Matilda Calls

25

28.

A

New-Fashioned Sunday Dinner.

Celebrating the Fourth

33 36

IX

Uncle John and Aunt Lucy Make aVisit

XXIXII XIII

Ruth

Inspects Bettina's Kitchen... Bettina's Birthday Gift Bettina's Father Tries Her Cooking

39 42 46

4953 56

XIV XVIXVII XVIII

Bob Helps With the Dinner A Sunday Evening Tea

XV A

Motor Picnic

XIX

Bettina Has a Caller Bob Gets Breakfast on Sunday Bettina Gives a Porch Party Bettina and the Expense Budget.

59 6265

69...

XXXXIIXXIII

73

Mrs. Dixon and Bettina's Experiment

yy81

XXI A Rainy Day Dinner

XXIV

XXVXXVIXXVIIXXVIII

XXIX

Buying a Refrigerator Bettina's Sunday Dinner Bettina Visits a Tea-room Bettina Entertains Alice and Mr. Harrison Over the Telephone Bettina Has A Baking Day Polly and the Children Bettina Puts Up Fruit

84 87 9093

97 100103

107

ContentsCHAPTER

XXX A

XXXIXXXIIXXXIII

XXXIV XXXVI

Cool Summer Day Bob and Bettina Alone Bettina Attends a Morning Wedding After the 'Tea" Bettina Gives a Porch BreakfastPiece of

PAGE iii

114 117121

124 127

XXXV A

News

Bettina Entertains Her Father and

Mother

130133

XXXVII The Big Secret XXXVIII After the Circus

136139143Visi-

XXXIX Mrs. Dixon XL A Telegramtors

Asks Questions from Uncle Eric

XLI Bettina Entertains State FairXLIIXLIII

147 149151

XLIV

XLVXLVIXLVII XLVIII

XLIX LLILII LIII

LIV

LVLVILVII LVIII

Uncle John and Aunt Lucy Sunday Dinner at the Dixon's A Rainy Evening at Home Ruth Makes an Apple Pie Bettina Makes Apple Jelly After A Park Party Bettina Spills THE Ink Bettina Attends a Porch Party A Dinner Cooked in the Morning... A Sunday Dinner Bob Makes Peanut Fudge Dinner at the Dixon's A Good-bye Luncheon for Bernadette Bettina Plans an Announcement Luncheon Ruth and Bettina Make Preparations A Rainbow Announcement Luncheon

154 159 162

166 169171

173 176

179 182185

188191igr^1

An

Early Callerto

V7

LIX Ruth Comes

LXLXILXII LXIII

Luncheon A Kitchen Shower for Alice A Rainy Night Meal Alice Gives a LuncheonMotoring with the Dixons

200205

209 212215

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ContentsCHAPTERPAGE

LXIV Ruth Makes Baking Powder

Biscuits

LXVLXVILXVII LXVIII

LXIX

Plans for the Wedding A Guest to a Dinner of Left-Overs. A Handkerchief Shower Just the Two of Them A Luncheon in the Country"Pair Shower" for Alice

.

218 220 222 224 22y 229 232235

LXX ALXXIII

LXXI Bob Makes Popcorn Balls LXXII And Where Was THE DinnerAlice Tells Her Troubles

LXXIV The

Dixons Come to Dinner

237 240 242245 248 250 255 258261

LXXV TheLXXVI

LXXVn

Wedding Invitations Hallowe'en Preparations Hallowe'en Revels

LXXVni A FOT^ETASTE OF WiNTER LXXIX Surprising Alice and Harry LXXX A Dinner for the Bridal Party LXXXI Rehearsing the CeremonyAfter the Wedding LXXXHI A "Happen-in" Luncheon LXXXIV Uncle John a Guest at Dinner LXXXV During the Teachers' Convention.. LXXXVI A Luncheon for the Teachers LXXXVn Ruth Comes to Luncheon LXXXVni The Hickory Log LXXXIX Some Christmas Plans XC After the Football Game XCI A Thanksgiving Dinner in the Country

LXXXn

264 267 270273 275 278 281

284 287 289292295

XCnXCVXCVI

XCni XCIV The

Planning THE Christmas Cards Harry and Alice ReturnFirelight Social Alice's Troubles Some of Bettina's Christmas Plans More of Bettina's Christmas Shopping Christmas Gifts

299 302305 308311

XCVnXCVIII

313

ContentsCHAPTERPAGE

XCIX ACCI CII

cmCIV

CVCVICVIICVIII

Christmas Shower Bettina Gives a Dinner Bob's Christmas Gift to Bettina A Christmas Breakfast A Supper for Two Alice Comes to Luncheon Ruth Stays to Dinner How Bettina Made Candy Ruth's Plans

316 320 322325

327331

A Luncheon for Three CIX The DixoNS Come to DinnerRuth Gives a Dinner for Four Alice Practices Economy A Company Dinner for Bob Supper After the Theatre Washington's Birthday Plans An Afternoon with Bettina A Washington's Birthday TeaBob Makes Pop-OversIn

334 337 339 342345

CX A Steamed Pudding CXI On Valentine's DayCXIICXIII

349 352 354 357 360363 366 368

CXIV

CXVCXVICXVII CXVIII

370373 376

CXIX Another Oven Dinner

CXXCXXICXXII CXXIII

March

A

FiRELEss Cooker for Aunt Lucy The Dixons Drop in for Dessert

379 382

CXXIV Ruth

Passes

By

CXXV

Bettina Entertains a Small Neighbor

CXXVI A Sunday Night TeaCXXVII A Shamrock Luncheon CXXVIII At Dinner

384 387 389 392395 397 399 402

CXXIX AnCXXXI

CXXX Ruth

Anniv^ersary Dinner C^mes to Dinner Mildred's Spring Vacation

CXXXII Helping Bettina CXXXIIl Help NG with a Company Dinner

CXXXIV

M11.DRED

s

Day

CXXXV

PoLL\ Comes for Mildred

407 410 413 415 418

ContentsCHAPTERPAGE

CXXXVICXXXVII CXXXVIII

CXXXIX CXLCXLII CXLIII

Mildred's Plans A Luncheon for Polly Furs to Put Away Planning a Children's Party The Party Circus

421

424 427 429 432435 437 441

CXLI Planning A Luncheon The New CarIn HousECLEANiNG Time Mrs. Dixon Happens in Engagement Presents

CXLIV

CXLVCXLVICXLVII CXLVIII

443 446

With Housecleaning OverSpring Marketing

449451

Plans for tee WeddingGuests..

CXLIX Entertaining the Wedding CL The Bridesmaids' DinnerCLI CLII

A Morning WeddingTheFirst

IN

June

Year Ends

453 455 457 459 461

JUNE.No, you cannotlive

on

kisses.is

ThoughHarken,

the

honeymoon

sweet,thisis,-

brides, a true

word

Even

lovers have to eat.

CHAPTER

I

HOME AT LASTC^TTOMEatlast!"

sighedleft the

Al

Bettina happily as the

hot and dusty travelerstrain.

"Whyding trip

that

contented sigh?"

asked Bob.is

"Because our wedover? Well, anyit's

how,Shall

Bettina,

afterat

five.

we have?

dinner

the

hotel?"

"Hotel

Why, Bobhome

!

house and our dishes and our

silver just waiting forfirst

ashamed of youcar, not a taxi!

!

We'll take the

car for

a

with our us? Vmstreet-

Our extravagant days

are over, and the time

has come to show you that Bettina knows

how to keep house. You think that you love me now, Bobby, but just wait till you sit down to a real strawberry shortcake made by a real cookin a real

home

!"

Half an hour

later

Bob was unlockingit

the door of the

new

brown bungalow.

"Isn't

a dear?" cried Bettina proudly.

"When we've had time to give it grass and shrubs and flowers And and a vegetable garden, no place in town will equal it as for porch furniture, how I'd like to get at Mother's attic and transform some of her discarded things!" "Just now I'd rather get at some of Mother's cooking!"!

grinned Bob.II

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"Oh, dear,

forgot

!

I'll

have supper readyshelf?!

in ten minutes.

Do you remember my emergencythey must have

Why, BobHere'srolls,

milk

and creamand butterand breadand!"

known we were coming

ice

Bob, and

and even

They knew, and didn't meet the train because they thought we would prefer to have our first meal alone! Wasn't that dear of them? And this will save you a trip toa grape fruit!the corner grocery

Bettina fastened a trim percale bungalow apron over hertraveling suit,*'I

and swiftly and surely assembled the little meal. apron," said Bob. "It reminds me of the rainy day when we fixed the emergency shelf. That was fun." "Yes, and work too," said Bettina, "but I'm glad we did it. Do you remember how much I saved by getting things in dozen and half dozen lots? And Mother showed me how much better it was to buy the larger sizes in bottled things, because in buying the smaller bottles you spend most of your money for the glass. Now that you have to pay my bills. Bob, you'lllike that

be glad that"I think

know those things !" you know a great deal,"I!

of girls can cook, but mighty fewat the

said Bob admiringly. "Lots know how to be economical"

It's great to be your same time "Dinner is served," Bettina interrupted. "It's a 'pick-up And after this, sir, no meal,' but I'm hungry, aren't you? !" more canned things

And Bob

sat

down

to:

Creamed Tuna on Toast Strips Canned Peas with Butter SauceRolls

Butter

Strawberry Preserves Hot Chocolate with Marshmallows

BETTINA'S RECIPES(All

measurements areStripsslice

level)

Creamed Tuna on ToastII

(Two

portions)

T-butterT-flourt-salt

%

y2

pimento C-milk 3 slices of bread C-tunaI

^

With Bettinas Best RecipesMelt the butter, add theGradually pourminute.Stir constantly.flour, salt

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in the milk.

and pimento. Mix well. Allow the mixture to boil one Add the fish, cook one minute and

pour over toasted

strips of bread.

Hot Chocolate (ThreeI

cups)

square of chocolate

2

C-milkt-vanilla

T-sugar 2/3 C-water3

^3

marshmallowsis

Cook

chocolate,

sugar and water until a thin custardboil.

formed. an Qgg beater, as this breaks up the albumin found in chocoAdd late, and prevents the coating from forming over the top. vanilla and marshmallows. Allow to stand a moment and pourinto the cups.

Add

milk gradually and bring to a

Whip

with

Strawberry Preserves (Six one-half4lbs.

pt.

glasses)

berries3

3lbs.

sugar

C-water

boiling the sugar

Pick over, wash and hull the berries. and water fifteen minutes.

Make

a syrup by

Fill sterilized jars

Cover with syrup and let stand fifteen with the berries. Adjust rubbers and minutes to settle. Add more berries. covers. Place on a folded cloth in a kettle of cold water. Heat water to boiling point and cook slowly one hour. Screw oncovers securely.

On6 6 6 6

Bettina's

Emergency

Shell

cans pimentos (small size) cans tuna (small size) cans salmon (small size) jars dried beef 12 cans corn 12 cans peas 6 cans string beans 6 cans lima beans 6 cans devilled ham (small size)

6 cans tomatoes 6 pt. jars pickles

6 pt. jars olives 6 small cans condensed milk 6 boxes sweet wafers I pound box salted codfish3 pkg. 3 cans

marshmallows

mushrooms

2 pkg. macaroni

CHAPTER

II

BETTINA'S FIRST REAL DINNER

^^OAY,

^

isn't

it

great to be alive!" exclaimed Bob, as

h**

looked across the rose-decked table at the flushed but

happy Bettina."Steakthis isis

"And a

beefsteak dinner, too

!"it

expensive, dear, and you'll not getfirst real

often, but as

had to celebought enough for two meals, because buying steak for one meal for two people is beyond any modest purse So you'll meet that steak again tomorrow, but I don't believe thatourI

dinner in our

own home,

I

brate.

!

you'll

bow

in recognition !"

"So you marketed today, did you?" "Indeed I did I bought a big basket, and went at it like I had all the staples to get, you a seasoned housekeeper. know, and lots of other things. After dinner I'll show you the labelled glass jars on my shelves it was such fun putting things away June is a wonderful month for housekeepers. I've planned the meals for days ahead, because I know that's Then I'll go to the market several times a week, and best.! ; !

if

It I plan properly I won't have to order by telephone. seems so extravagant to buy in that way unless you know

what you are getting. I like to plan for left-overs, For instance, the peas in this salad were left from yesterday's dinner, and the pimento is from that can I opened. Then, too, I cooked tomorrow's potatoes with these to save gas and bother. You'll have them served in a different way, Oh, yes. Bob," Bettina chattered on, "I of course. And saw Ruth down town, and have asked all five of my bridesexactlytoo.

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15

maids to luncheon day after tomorrow. Won't that be fun? But I promise you that the neglected groom shall have every !" one of the good things when he comes home at night "It makes me feel happy, I can tell you, to have a home like It's pleasant to be by ourselves, but at the same time this.I can't

help wishing that

some of the bachelors!"

I

know

could

and taste your cooking "Well, Bob, I want you to feel free to have a guest at any If my dinners are good enough for you, I'm sure they're time. good enough for any guest whom you may bring. And it isn't very hard to make a meal for three out of a meal for two. Now, Bobby, if you're ready, will you please get the dessert?" "What ? Strawberry shortcake ? Well, this is living I tell !" you what, Bettina, I call this a regular man-size mealseeit all!

It consisted of

Pan-Broiled Steak

Baking-Powder Biscuitsrchubarb Sauce Strawberry Short-cake

Potatoes in Cream Butter Pea and Celery Salad

New

Cream

Coffee

BETTINA'S RECIPES(All

measurements are

level)

Pan-Broiled Steak (TwoII I

portions)

lb.

steak T-buttert-salt

%

t-pepper

2 T-hot water I t-parsley chopped

Wipe

the meat carefully with a wet cloth.

Remove

super-

fluous fat

Cut the edges to prevent them from curling up. When the broiling oven is very hot, place the micat, without any fat, upon a hot flat pan, directly under the blaze. Brown both sides very quickly. Turn often. Reduce heat and continue cooking about seven minutes, or longer Place on a warm platter season with salt, pepper if desired. and bits of butter. Set in the oven a moment to melt the If salt is added while cooking, the juices will be drawn butter. A gravy may be made by adding hot water, butter, salt, out. pepper and parsley to the pan. Pour the gravy over the

and any

gristle.

;

steak.

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A

Thousand Ways To Please a HusbandNewPotatoes in Cream4

(Twowater

portions)

new potatoesI

i

qt.

t-salt

Scrape four medium sized new potatoes. Cook in boiling water (salted) until tender when pierced with a fork. Drain off the water, and shake the kettle over the fire gently, to allowthe steam to escape and

make

the potatoes mealy.

Make

the

following white sauce and pour over the potatoes.

White Sauce

for

New

Potatoes

(Two

portions)

2 T-butter i c-milk 2 T-flour y2 t-salt t-paprika

^

Melt the butter, add the flour, salt and paprika. Thoroughly mix, slowly add milk, stirring constantly. Allow sauce to cook two minutes.Strawberry Shortcake (Two portions)2 T-lard 1 T-butter 2 c-sifted flour54 C-milk

1/3 t-salt 4 t-baking powder i qt. strawberries

2/3 C-sugar

Cut the

fat into the flour, salt

and baking powder

until the

consistency of cornmeal.

Gradually add the milk, using a

Do not handle any more than absolutely necesToss the dough upon a floured board or a piece of clean brown paper. Pat into the desired shape, and place in a pan. Bake in a hot oven for 12 to 15 minutes. Split, spread with butter, and place strawberries, crushed and sweetened, between and on top. Serve with cream.knife to mix.sary.

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CHAPTER

III

BETTINA'S FIRST GUEST

^^TTELLO!-- -^

Yes, this

is

Bettina

!

Why, Bob,No,

of course!

Is

he a real woman-hater?that.

but

I'll

just invite Alice, too,

calling

him

Six-thirty

?

I'm so glad you asked him.

met any, and tomorrow you won't be Yes, I'll be ready for you both He'll be our first guest GoodI've never!

bye

!"

Bettina left the telephone with

more misgivings than her

She couldn't disappoint Bob, and she liked unexpected company, but the dinner which she had planned was prepared largely from the recipes filed as "leftovers" in her box of indexed cards. "Well, Bob will like it, anyhow," she declared confidently, "and if Alice can come, we'll have enough scintillating tabletalk to make up for disappointments." Alice accepted with delight, promising to wear "a dream o\ a gown that just came home," and confessing to a sentimental feeling at the thought of dining with such a new bride and groom. "Let's see," said Bettina in her spick and span little kitchen, "there is meat enough, but I must hard-boil some eggs to help out these potatoes. 'Potatoes Anna' will be delicious. Goodness, what would my home economics teacher have said if she had heard me say 'hard-boil'? They mustn't really be boiledatall,

tone had indicated.

just 'hard-cooked' in water kept at the boiling point.

There will be enough baked green peppers for four, and enough of the pudding, and if I add some very good coffee,17

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A

Thousand Ways To Please a HusbandBob's Mr. Harrison will feel thatall!

I don't believe that

womenlittle

are such nuisances afterit's

It isn't

an elaborate meal, butbill

wholesome, andAlice

at

any

rate,

our gas

will

be a

smaller because everything goes into the oven."

was putting the finishing !" you look stunning "And you look lovely, which is better! And the table is charming! Those red clover blossoms in that brown basket make a perfect center-piece! How did you think of it?" "Mother Necessity reminded me, my dear! My next door neighbor has roses, but I covet some for my luncheon tomorrow, and did not like to ask for any today. So I had to use these red clover blooms from our own back yard. They arearrived,

When

Bettina

touches on her table.

"Alice,

simple, like the dinner."

"Don't you envy me, Harrison?" asked Bob at the table. "This is my third day of real home cooking You were unex!

pected company, too

!"

The dinner

consisted of

Potatoes

Anna

Boubons with Tomato Sauce Baked Green Peppers StuffedButter

BreadCottage PuddingCoffee

Lemon Sauce

BETTINA'S RECIPES(All

measurements are

level)

Boubons (Four portions)1

C-cooked meat ground

fine

(one or

more

% ^ C-milk T-green % t-celeryI

kinds may be used) 2 T-fresh bread crumbs t-pepper

pepper or pimento choppedsalt

fine

Yz t-saltI

t-butter (melted)

Beat the egg, add milk, seasonings, melted butter, breadcrumbs and meat. Mix thoroughly. Fill buttered cups threefourths full of mixture. Place in a pan of boiling water, and

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bake in a moderate oven fifteen minutes. The mixture is done as soon as it resists pressure in the center. Allow them to remain in the pans a few minutes, then remove carefully upona serving plate.vidual ones.

They may be made in a large mould or indiServe with the following sauce.Tomato Sauce (Fourportions)

C-tomatoes I slice onion 4 bay leavesI

3^ t-sugarJ/2

C-water

4 cloves

2 T-butter 2 T-flour

H

t-salt

Simmer the tomatoes, onion, bay leaves, cloves, sugar and water for fifteen minutes, rub through the strainer. Melt butter, add flour and salt, add strained tomato juice and pulp.Cookuntil the desired consistency.

Potatoes

Anna (Four

portions)

iH C-cooked

diced potatoes t-celery salt 2 hard-cooked eggs yi t-onion salt I C-thin white sauce

^

Place alternate layers of diced cooked potatoes and sliced

hard-cooked eggssauce overutes.all

in a

baking dish.

Season.

Pour a

thin white

of this.

Place in a moderate oven fifteen min-

Stuffed Green Peppers (Four portions)

4 green peppers

4 C-boiling waterall

tents.

Remove the stems of the peppers and take out Remove small slices from the blossom end

the con-

so they will

stand.

minutes and drain.hot water.

Cover peppers with boiling water, allow to stand five Fill with any desired mixture. Bake in a moderate oven twenty-five minutes, basting frequently with

Filling forI

Peppers (Four portions)^

C-fresh bread crumbs t-chopped onion or 34 T-onion salt 1/3 C-chopped ham, or i T-salt pork 2 T-waterI

5^ t-saltil/g

T-melted buttert-paprika

:

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Thousand Ways To Please a Husbandfill

Mix

thoroughly and

the pepper cases.

Baked Cottage Pudding (Four portions)I I )4.

C-flour

2/3 t-baking powdert-salt

1/3 C-sugar 2 T-melted butter

I

well-beaten g:^q

H %

C-milkt-vanilla or

lemon extract

Mix

dry ingredients, add egg and milk.

Beat well and add

in a well melted butter and extract. following sauce buttered mould. Serve hot with the

Bake twenty-five minutes

Lemony2

Sauce (Four portions)t-butter

C-sugar

II

ij^I

1 -flourC-hot watersugar, flour

t-lemon extract or

^

t-lemon juice

J^ t-salt

Mix

and

salt.

until thick, stirring constantly.

Slowly add the hot water. Cook Add flavoring and butter.

CHAPTER

IV

BETTINA GIVES A LUNCHEON

^^f\ YOU ^^daintyfirst

darling Bettina

!

Did you dohostess

it

all

yourself?"

Mary exclaimedcourseis

impulsively, as the girls admired thetheirset

which

before!"

them.

"Everything

pink and white, like the wedding

"Yes," said Bettina, "and those maline bows on the basketof roses actually attended

my

wedding.I

And

after thisit!

is

over,

you mayputit

see that maline again.

expect to press

out and

away

for other pink luncheons in other Junes

Today,

since

my

guests were to be just

my

bridesmaids, I thought that

a pink luncheon would be the most appropriate kind.""Isn'tit!'^it

fine to

be in Bettina's

own house?by herself!

I can't realize

said Ellen.

"Andit

the idea of daring to cook a whole

luncheon and serve

in courses all

Why,

Bettina,

how

did you

know what

to

have ?"all

"Well," said Bettina, "I went to the market and sawinexpensive things that one can buy in June!

the

(They had to be inexpensive Why, if I were to tell you just what this luncheon cost, you'd laugh. But I want you to like it all before I give that secret away.) And then in planning my menu, I thought of pinky things that went together. That was all, you!

see."

"But didn't

it

take hours and hours to prepare everything ?"

and wrote it down, and found that five minutes of planning is worth five hours of unplanned work. I haven't hurried, and as Bob will have this same meal as his dinner tonight, I didn't have to think of him except to plan for more.no.I

"Why,

thought

it all

out

first,

did most of

it

yesterday.

I've

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Athis

Thousand Ways To Please a Husbandestimated each portion as carefully aslot of left-over things.I

Youisn't

see, I

could, for

it

necessary to have a

Tonight

I'll

wear

bit that

same pink gown at dinner so that Bob will get every he can of my first luncheon except the silly girls who

flattered the cook."

"Bettina, there are so

many

things I'd like to ask you

!"

said

Ruth,hand.

who was

a

little

conscious of the shining ring on her left

"Tell me, for instance,

how you shaped

these cunning

timbales.

With your hands ?"conical ice-cream mould.!

It is so easy that way." Fred is so fond of salad, but I don't know a thing about making it." "Well, I washed the lettuce thoroughly, and when it was very wet I put it on the ice in a cloth. I poured boiling water over these tomatoes to make the skins peel off easily. And, oh, yes, these cucumbers are crisp because I kept the slices in

"With a

"And

this salad

water for awhile before I served them. Good salad is always very cold; the ingredients ought to be chilled before they are mixed." "These dear little cakes, Bettina! How could you make them in such cunning shapes ?" "With a fancy cutter. And I dipped it in warm water eachice

time before

I

used

it,

so that

it

would cut evenly.

I'd love to

show you

girls all that I;

while you're at

it now know about cooking. Do labor and even tears home it will save much

learn

" Why, Bob said "I knew that was coming!" laughed

Alice.

"Girls, in self-

keep the conversation and away from Betty's husband!"defense,let's

strictly

on Betty's menu,

And

so they discussed

Strawberries au Naturel Whipped Cream Kornlet Soup Croutons Salmon Timbales with Egg Sauce Potato Croquettes Buttered Beets Butter^ Balls Pinwheel Biscuit Salad Dressing Vegetable Salad

Wafers

Fancy Cakes

Coffee

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23

measurements are

level)

Strawberries au Naturel (Ten portions)2 quarts strawberriesi

C-powdered sugar

Pick over selected berries, place in a colander and wash,draining carefully.of

Press powdered sugar into cordial glasses

to shape into a small mould.ters

Remove fromonfruit

glasses onto cen-

paper

doilies

placed

plates.

Attractively

arrange ten berries around each mound.kept cool and not hulled.effectively

Berries should be

Natural leaves

may

be used very

on the

doily.

Croutons for the Soup (Ten portions)4slices

bread

2 T-butter (melted)

HCutstale

t-salt

bread

in one-third inch cubes.salt.

Brown

in the oven.

Add

melted butter and

Mix and

reheat the croutons.

Salmon Timbales (Eight portions)I

J4I

C-salmon flaked C-bread crumbs slightly beaten egg

2/3 C-milki

T-lemont-paprika

juice

%Mixor cups one-halffull.

^

t-salt

ingredients in order named.

Fill small

buttered moulds

Set in a pan of hot water, and bake

twenty minutes in a moderate oven.sauce

Serve with following

Egg Sauce

(Eight portions)

3 T-butter 3 T-flourI

H %I

t-salt

J?

C-milk

t-pepper Ggg yolk

Melt the butter, stir flour in well, and slowly add the milk. Let it boil about two minutes, stirring constantly. Season, addyolk of egg, and

mix

well.

(The

oil

from the salmon may beit

substituted for melted butter as far as

will go.)

1/3 C-butter

White Cakes (Sixteen cakes) 3 t-baking powderj4 t-lemon extract ^2 t-vanilla 3 egg whiter

1 C-sugar 2/3 C-milk 2 C-sifted flour

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butter, add sugar, and continue creaming. Alteradd the dry ingredients mixed and sifted. Add the Fold in the stiffly beaten milk. Beat well, add flavoring. whites. Spread evenly, two-thirds of an inch thick, on waxed paper, placed in a pan. Bake twenty minutes in moderate oven. Remove from oven, allow cake to remain in pan five minutes. Carefully remove and cool. Cut with fancy cutters.

Cream

nately

White Mountain Cream IcingI

for Cakes

%

C-granulated sugar t-cream tartarJ/2

%i

C-water tgg white

t-vanilla

Boil the sugar, water andstirring.

cream of tartar together withoutas soon as the syrup hairsstiffly

Remove from

fire

whenbeaten

dropped from a spoon.^gg white.If icing gets too

Pour very slowly onto the

Beat vigorously with sweeping strokes until cool. hard to spread, add a little warm water and keep beating. Add extract and spread on cakes. Decorate with tiny pink candies.

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CHAPTER VBOB HELPS TO GET DINNER^^/^^

^J

UESS who !"!

said a voice behind Bettina, as

two hands

blinded her eyes.

"Why, Bob, dearso early?"

Good

for

you

!

How

did you get

home

"I caught a ride with Dixon in his new car. And I thought you might need me to help get dinner it's nice to be needed But here I've been picturing you toiling over a hot stove, and, instead, I find you on the porch with a magazine, as cool as a cucumber !'* "The day of toiling over a hot stove in summer is over. At least for anyone with sense But I'm glad you did come home early, and you can help with dinner. Will you make the French dressing for the salad? See, I'll measure it out, and you can stir it this way with a fork until it's well mixed and a;!

little

thick."

"I

knowIt's

a

much

better

way than

that.

Just watch yourjar

Uncle Bob; see?it.

I'll

put

it

in this little

Mason

and shake

a lot easier and

there you are!

We'll use what

we

need tonight, put the jar away in the ice-box, and the next time we can give it another good shaking before we use it.'* "Why, Bob, what an ingenious boy you are I never would !" have thought of that *'^ou married a man with brains, Betty dear! What is!

there besides the salad ?"

"Halibut steak.

It's

good inexpensive

fish

Friday, you know, and there is such on the market. A pound is plenty for

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AThe

Thousand Ways To Please a Husbandpotatoes are ready for the white sauce, the beansis

are in the fireless cooker, and for dessert there

fresh pineit,

apple sliced.

The pineapple

is

all

ready.

Will you get

dear?

In the ice-box in a covered jar."didn'tit

you slice it into the serving dish?" had to be covered tight. Pineapple has a penetrating odor, and milk and butter absorb it in no time.""Because

"Why

"What

else shall I do,

Madam

Bettina?"

fish. No, not sliced a slice is too hard to handle. Just cut it in halves and then once the other way, in quarters see ? You may also cut up a little of that parsley for the creamed new potatoes. That reminds me that I am going to have parsley growing in a Now you can take the beans kitchen window box some day. out of the cooker, and I'll put butter sauce on them. No, it just melted butter with salt and pepper. isn't really a sauce, There, Bobby dear! Dinner is served, and you helped! How do you like the coreopsis on the table ?" "You always manage to have flowers of some kind, don't you, Betty ? I'm growing so accustomed to that little habit of yours that I suppose I wouldn't have any appetite if I had to !" eat on an ordinary undecorated table "Don't you make fun of me, old fellow You'd have an appetite no matter when, how or what you had to eat! But things are good tonight, aren't they?" Bob had helped to prepare

"Well, you

may

fix the

lemon for the

;

!

Potatoes in Cream Butter Sauce Butter Bread French Dressing Tomato, Cucumber and Pimento Salad Sliced Fresh Pineapple Halibut SteakString Beans

New

BETTINA'S RECIPES(All

measurements are

level)'

Halibut Steak

(Two

portions)t-salt 54 t-paprika

2/3

lb.

Halibut Steak J^

3 T-flour

Washtwo

pieces.

one pound of Halibut steak and wipe dry. Cut in Roll in flour, and cook ten minutes in a frying pan

With Bettinas Best Recipesin hot fat.

27Season

with

salt

Brown on one side, and then on the other. and paprika. Serve very hot.(Twot-salt

String Beans with Butter Sauceij4 C-string

portions)

beans

ii

T-butter

2 C-water

54 t-paprika

Remove ends and strings from green beans. Add water and cook over a moderate fire for twenty-five minutes. Drain off the water, add butter, salt and paprika. Reheat and serve.Tomato, Cucumber and Pimento Salad (Two portions)I

tomatoC-sliced

sliced

i

t-salt

y2I

cucumbers T-pimento cut fine

%

t-paprika 2 pieces lettuce

Arrange lettuce on serving dishes. Place portions of tomato, cucumber and pimento on the lettuce. Sprinkle with salt and paprika. Serve with French dressing.French Dressing (Two portions)4 T-olive oil 2 T-vinegar

H%.

t-salt

t-paprika

Mix

ingredients,

beat until

which have been thoroughly chilled, and the mixture thickens. Pour over the vegetables.PineappleI

Sliced

(Two

portions)

pineapple

K

C-sugar

Remove

the skin and eyesslices,

wise in half-inch

discarding the core.

from the pineapple. Cut crossand the slices in cubes, at the same time Sprinkle with sugar and stand in a cold

place for an hour before serving.

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CHAPTER

VI

COUSIN MATILDA CALLSThis is Mother! I'll is this you, Bettina? have to speak in a low voice. Who do you think is here? No, Cousin Matilda! Just between trains, but she Clementine has says she must see how you are 'situated' No, of establishment now, you know such a wonderful her to see how happy you are. She course not, but I want seems to have the idea that an 'establishment' is necessary I know the porch isn't Just to see the house, you know! About three, then. Good-by !" ready, but don't worry That afternoon Bettina looked anxiously through the living-' -^

i^TTELLO,

!

!

!

If only critical across the bare little front yard. But Cousin Matilda had waited a few months before coming then, the only thing to do was to be as cheerful about it as!

room window

possible

"So

this is little Bettina!" said a majestic voice at the door.is !"is

"And howeverythingBettina's

love

in

a cottage?

How

charmingly simple

they wanted it," explained it all just as mother proudly. "On a small scale, of course, but " perhaps some day "But I couldn't ever be happier than I am right now. Cousin Matilda. What do you think of our big living room? Browns and tans seemed best and safest in a little house like this, and I do I knew I shouldn't tire of them as of any other color in blue, so dislike going into a bungalow with one little room another in pink, and so on. The walls are all alike, even in

"They planned

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29

And

the curtains are just simple cotton voiles,

ecru in the living and dining rooms, and white in the bed-

rooms.air.

NoI

Butit all

side curtains to catch the dust and keep out the beg your pardon for seeming too complacent; II

love

so thatis this,

"What"Yes,

my

just can't help boasting." dear ? wedding gift ?"

A

isn't

it

lovely?

It

is

a sampler in cross-stitch that

Bob's great-great-grandmotherit

made

!

His Aunt Margaret hadit

put under the glass cover of this tea cart, and gaveSee, the cartis

to us

for a wedding present.

think it looks well with our furniture, be a living porch, but we haven't furnished it yet except for this green matting rug. And Bob brought that hanging basket

brown willow, and I don't you? This is to

home from

the florist's the other day.!

.

.

.

Japanese garden watching it."

Bob laughs

at

me,

I

Oh, yes, this is my have so much fun

"What

a lovely table decoration those red cherries

make

in

your dining room,dull green pottery

my!"

dear!

Like a picture,

in that piece of

"Yes, Bob says

I

decorate the table differently for every

mealsee

!

Wetea,

use this breakfast alcove for breakfast, Sundayor any informal mealit

evening

when we

are alone.

You

do want to put a round serving table with leaves on our living porch. Then we can eat there on warm evenings in summer." "Bettina is very accomplished in economy," said her mother. ^You must let her tell you some of her methods." "Clementine would be interested, I'm sure," said Cousin Matilda in her languid way. "Is this your guest room ?'* "Yes, and Bob and I are proud of that. We white enameled the furniture ourselves It is some that we found in a secondhand store, and it was certainly a bargain, though it didn't look it at the time. I sewed the rags together for these blue and white rugs. Bob made that little open desk out of a smallconvenientis!

how

I

!

table that

we found somewhere.cunning.

Now

that

it is

white, too, I

think

it

is

guesses as to

And, Cousin Matilda, I give you three the place in which I keep my sewing machine !"it

"Why,

I

haven't seen

vet.

In the kitchen ?"

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"Goodness, noing table, butis

This looks like a dress Well, I'll tell you merely a shelf with a mirror above it. Th

274

A

Thousand Ways To Ptease a HusbandBETTINA'S RECIPESmeasurements are level) Salmon Loaf (Three portions)(AllI

14

C-flaked salmon C-fresh bread crumbs

^ %I

t-salt

2/3 C-milk I egg-yolk

t-paprika t-melted buttert-flour

I

Mixpaprika.

the salmon, bread crumbs,

Pack down

in a well-buttered pan.

spoon of melted butter over the top. thirty-five minutes in a moderate oven.

salt and Pour one teaDredge with flour. Bake

milk egg-yolk,

Serve hot or cold.

Date Buns (Twelve Buns)3 C-flour Yz t-salt1

1/3 T-butter}ii

yeast cake

C-milk egg

2 T-sugar

2/3 C-dates

Mix and sift the flour and the salt. Add the dates, which have been pitted and cut into small pieces. Mix with sugar the yeast cake (broken up). Heat the milk and add the butWhen the butter is melted, cool the milk mixture slightly, ter.and addyeastisit

to the yeast mixture, stirring carefully until the

dissolved.

Addboard.to rise

the tgg well-beaten to the milk mixture, and add this

to the flour.

Mix

thoroughly and toss onto a well-flouredminutes.

Knead twoone hour.

Place in a

warm

place and allow

Divide into twelve pieces by cutting with a

knife.

Allow

to rise ten minutes.

Brush the tops with one

tablespoon of egg to which has been added one tablespoonof milk.

Bake twenty minutes

in a hot oven.

Lemon

Rice Pudding (Three portions)i

2/3 C-cooked riceJ4 t-saltI

T-lemonC-sugar

juice

HI I

C-milk

T-powdered sugart-lemon juice

I

egg

the milk and the rice.

Beat the egg-yolk, add the sugar, salt and lemon juice. Add Cook one minute, stirring constantly to prevent scorching. Pour into a well-buttered pudding dish, Beat the egg-white very stiff. Add the powdered sugar and (One teaspoon.) Pile lightly on top of the the lemon juice. pudding. Bake thirty minutes in a slow oven.

CHAPTER LXXXVDURING THE TEACHERS' CONVENTION

^^QO

^

you'll not be

back until dinner time?" Bettina had

said at the breakfast table to Bob's cousin, Edna,'*A

and

her friend, Catherine.be!"

whole day of

it

!

How

tired you'll

Edna laughed herelse laugh, too.

ripply laugh that always

made everyone?

"Tired getting

me

a hat and a suit

Oh, Bet-

tina!

That makes me

feel livelier

than ever!"she said, "youwill

Catherine looked troubled.

"Now, Edna,"

positively mustn't miss that afternoon meeting.

be so inspiring!

I know it Remember what Professor Macy said!"

Edna laughed again. "Catherine always quotes Professor Macy as if he were an oracle or a sphinx or something insteadof a nice solemnlittle

young high school teacher who's getting aisn't

bald

!"

"Hesome

isn't

bald and he

solemn," declared Catherine with

spirit.

and everything "I want younonsense ?"

He is a lamb and a darling !" you want me to say to say? Why, Edna, aren't you ashamed!" said Catherine, growing very red. "Who ever heard of such"Forgive me, Catherine dear!else

"I love to tease you, Catherine.

It's

so easy

!

So you won't

help

me

get

my

hat?

I

w^ant a beautiful purple oneI

or

else

a perkystately

little

black one.

haven't decided whether to be

that I will not look astion

and gracious, or frivolous and cunning. But I do know if I were about to cram the multiplicatable into the head of some poor little innocent!'*275

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Thousand Ways To Please a Husband"You won'tlook that

"Don't worry, Edna," said Bob.atall.

way

to

wonder that you can be serious long enough impress the members of the school board when they comeIn fact,I

visiting."

"She doesn't try to impress them; she just smiles at them and that does just as well," said Catherine. "But she's not so utterly frivolous as her conversation sounds. She wants to hear the convention addresses just as much as I do and I know she'll be there this afternoon. In fact, I intendinstead, to save a seat for her."

"Between you and Professor Macy?" asked Edna, inno"Or on his left?" "Shame on you, Edna," said Bettina. "Now you girls tell me just what you'd like for dinner Aren't there some special dishes you're hungry for?" "Pork tenderloin and sweet potatoes !" said Edna. "Our landlady never has them, and I often dream of the joy of orcently.!

dering such delicacies

!"

And

so that evening for dinner Bettina had:

Pork Tenderloin and Sweet Potatoes Baked Apples Bread Butter Cottage Pudding with Chocolate SauceCoffee

BETTINA'S RECIPES(All

measurements are

level)

Pork Tenderloin and Sweet Potatoes (Four portions)iy2 lbs.I

pork tenderloin

^

t-salt

t-pepper 4 large sweet potatoes

Wipe

tilt;

tenderloins which have been prepared by cutting

into small pieces (by the butcher).

Place in a small roaster

and put in a hot oven. When brown on each side, season with Pare the potatoes and place in the pan with salt and pepper. Baste every ten minutes with one-fourth cup of the meat. water if there are not sufficient drippings to baste both the potatoes and meat. Cook until the potatoes are done (aboutforty-five minutes).

With Bettinas Best RecipesBaked Apples (Four portions)4 Jonathan apples 8 T-"C" sugar2 t-cinnamoni

277

C-water

^Wash andtin

t-vanilla

core the apples.

Fill

sugar and one-half teaspoon of cinnamon.

each with one tablespoon of Place in a small

pan just large enough

to hold them.

Add

the water

and

the rest of the sugar, and bake forty-five minutes in a moder-

Baste frequently with the syrup. After the apples have cooked thirty minutes, add the vanilla to the syrup.ate oven.Bettina's Cottagej4

Pudding (Four portions)3 T-chopped nuts y2 t-vanillaI

C-sugar

J4 t-salt1 C-flour 2 t-baking

powder3

^

egg C-milk

T-melted butter

Mix the sugar, salt, flour, baking powder and nuts. Add the egg and milk and mix well. Add the vanilla. Beat vigorously for two minutes, and then add the melted butter. Pour into well-buttered gem pans, filling each half full. Bake fifteen minutes in a moderate oven. Serve with chocolate sauce.Chocolate Sauce (Four portions)

HI

C-sugar

ys t-saltI

2 T-flour

square of chocolatet-vanilla

C-water

%

Mix thoroughly the sugar, flour and salt. Add the water and the chocolate. Cook slowly until the chocolate is melted (about two minutes). Add the vanilla and serve hot. If too thick, add more water until the desired consistency is reached.

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CHAPTER LXXXVIA LUNCHEON FOR THE TEACHERS^^T 'LLstay at

home and

-

tina ?" asked

help you this morning; may I, BetEdna, looking wistfully around at Bettina's

white kitchen.that

"No, indeed, my dear. It is such a simple little luncheon And you I have planned that I can easily do it all alone. must go to the meeting. All I ask is that you won't forget tofuss around with

come home at noon.'* "Edna would much ratherdear"butlittle

you

in this

kitchen than to go to the meetings," said Catherine,let her.

work and

always crazy to cook and do housecame to this convention with me, and I intend to have her get the benefit of it. Do you hear me, you bad girl? It's almost time for us to be there. Go and get your things !" "This is the way I'm managed all the time!" complainedI

won't

She

is

things like that, but she

Edna

and pale ?'* "Poor Edna !" said Bettina, smiling at her round figure and rosy cheeks. "Now do run along with Catherine. But don't forget we'll have three other guests at noon! So wear yourto Bettina.

"Do you wonder

that I look thin

prettiest smile

!"!"

"And

I'll

help you serve

Edna smiled

back.

That day for luncheon, Bettina hadCreamed Oysters on ToastPear Salad Pecan Ice Cream Mints

Brown Bread SandwichesSponge CakeCoffee

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BETTINA'S RECIPES(All

measurements are

level)

Creamed Oysters on Toast6 pieces of toast, cut circular3 T-butter

(Six portions)

^i

t-paprikat-salt

i^ C-milk2 C-oysters

4 T-flour

Melt the add the flour, salt and paprika, and mix thoroughly. Gradually add the milk, cook until thick and creamy (about three minutes), and add the oysters. Serve very hot on toast.butter,

Pick over the oysters, and drain off the liquor.

Garnish with parsley.Pear Salad (Six portions)6 halves of pear C-cottage cheeseI

6 halves of walnutsy% t-paprika

5^

I

T-chopped pimento T-chopped green pepper

6 T-salad dressing 6 pieces of lettuce

Arrange the pears on the

lettuce leaves.

Mix

the cheese,

pimento, green pepper and paprika thoroughly.

Fill the half

of the pear with the mixture. Place salad dressing over the mixture and lay one nut meat on top of each portion. Servecold.

Pecan Ice Cream (Ten portions)I

^Mixthe mixture.

qt.

of

cream

ly^ T-vanilla

C-sugar

^

C-pecan meats, cutFill

fine

the cream, sugar and vanilla.

a freezer half full ofto stand

When

half frozen add the pecan meats.

tinue freezing until

stiff.

Pack and allow

Contwo hours

to "ripen" before serving.

Sponge Cake (Ten portions)6 egg-yolks I C-sugar I t-lemon extract6 egg-whites I C-flour

^

t-salt

Beat the egg-yolks until thick and lemon colored.

Add

the

sugar gradually and continue beating, using a Dover tgg-

280beater.

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Thousand Ways To Please a HusbandAddthe extract

and whites of the eggs very

stiffly

beaten.

Remove

the egg beater and cut and fold the flour

which has been

sifted four times, the salt having been

to the last sifting.

Bake one hour

in

added an unbuttered, narrow

pan in a slow oven. Genuine sponge cake has no baking powder or soda in it. The eggs must be vigorously beaten so that the cake will rise. A very slow oven is necessary. Increase the heat slightly everyfifteen minutes.

Dofork.

not cut sponge cake;

it

should be broken apart with a

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CHAPTER LXXXVII

RUTH COMES TO LUNCHEON^^"DETTINA,*-'I

what makes the gas stove pop like that when I've often wondered." "Why, Ruth, that's because you apply the match too soon.Hghtit?

You oughtthatfills

to allow the gas to flow for about four seconds;

holes with gas and blows out the air. won't pop or go out. The flame ought to burn blue; if it burns yellow, turn it off, and adjust it again." "Well, I'm glad to know that. Sometimes it has been allall

the

littleit

Then

light

it,

and

right

and sometimesI

it

hasn't,

and

I

never realized that

because

applied the match too soon.

I'm glad

I

it was came today."

"I'm glad, too, but not because of instructing you, I'm not competent to do that in very many things, goodness knows When I called up and asked you to lunch, it was because I had such a longing to see what lovely things you'd be making !" today. You will have the daintiest, prettiest trousseau, Ruth "I love to embroider, so I'm getting great fun out of it. I tell Fred it's a treat to make pretty things and keep them all They were usually for gifts before! Oh, lobster salad?" "No, creamed lobster on toast. There, Mister Lobster, you're out of your can. I always hurry him out in doublequick time onto a plate, or into an earthen-ware dish, because I'm so afraid something might interrupt me, and I'd be careless enough to leave him in the opened can! Though I know I never could be so careless. Then I never leave a metal fork standing in lobster or canned fish. It's a bad thing." "I knew about the can, but not about the fork, though I don't believe I ever do leave a fork or a spoon in anything likethat."

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Thousand Ways To Please a Husbandprefer tea, coffee, or chocolate with these cook-

"Would youies for

dessert?"

"Coffee, I believe, Bettina.

Aren't they cunning cookies!

What

are they ?"I

"Peanut cookies.simple to make.often serves them.

think they are good, and they are so

They areThere

lunch

nice with afternoon tea;is all

mother

ready but the coffee,

and we'll have that last." Luncheon consisted ofCreamed Lobster on Toast

Head LettuceBread

French Dressing with Green PeppersButter

Peanut CookiesCoffee

BETTINA'S RECIPES(All

measurements are

level)

Creamed Lobster on Toast (Two portions)2/3 C-lobster 2 T-butter A few grains of cayenne pepper1/3 t-salt2 T-flouri

Hi

C-milk t-lemon juice egg-yolk

3 slices of toast

Melt the butter, add the salt, cayenne and flour. Gradually add the milk, cook until thick, stirring constantly unless indouble boiler. Add the egg-yolk. with a fork, and the lemon juice.

Add

the lobster, separatedtoast,

Serve very hot on

garnished with parsley.

Head Lettuce (TwoI

portions)

head lettuce

Removedown.

the outside leaves and the core.salt init,

with one-half teaspoon

Soak in cold water with the head of the lettuce

Cut into quarters.

Serve a quarter as a portion.

French Dressing with Green Peppers (Two portions)y^ t-salt }i

t-pepper

4 T-olive oil 2 T-chopped green

2 T-vinegar

peppers

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283

Mix the salt, pepper, and green pepper. Add the vinegar. Beat well and add the olive oil slowly. Beat with a silverfork until the dressing thickens.

Peanut Cookies (Two dozen)y2'

C-sugar

J4 t-salti

3 T-butterI I

C-flour

eggt-baking

powder

HYz

C-chopped peanuts t-lemon juice

\

j

1

and add wellbeaten ^gg. Add the baking-powder, salt, flour, chopped peaMix thoroughly, and drop two inches nuts, and lemon juice. apart on a greased baking-tin or in pans. Bake fifteen minutes in a moderate oven.well,*

Cream

the butter, add the sugar,

mix

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CHAPTER LXXXVIII

THE HICKORY LOGC^O AY,by the cheerful blaze. "Doesn't it!" said Bettina, enthusiastically. "And see, I've It's such fun when set the dinner table here by the fireplace. just the two of us are here. Isn't the log burning well?" "I wondered if we could use one of our new logs tonight thought about it all the way home. And here you had alreadytriedit!

^

this feels

good!" said Bob, as he warmed his hands

November has turnedcoming."I,

so

much

colder that

I

believe

winter

is

"So dogiving."

but

I

don't mind, I don't

want a warm Thanks?

"Dinner ready ?loped potatoes?

Mm, what's that!"!

Lamb

chops ?

Escal-

Smells good

After dinner, we'll try those nuts we left Do you think they're dry enough by this time? Charlotte phoned me that they had tried theirs, and found them fine. By the way, she and Frank may come

"Come

on, dear

so long out at Uncle John's.

over

this evening."

I hear a car outside now." Frank and Charlotte. Go to the door, Bob We'll persuade them to eat dessert with us. Hello, people! Come in; you're just in time to have some tea and a

"Hope they!

do.

Listen

"Sure enough,

that's

.

.

ginger drop-cake apiece.""That's whating.

we came

for, Bettina !"

shouted Frank, laughIt's

"And

then you must come out in the car with us.it

a beautiful, clear, cold night, and you'll enjoyplenty of wraps!"

if

you take

For dinner

that night Bettina served:

^

284

With Bettinas Best RecipesLamb ChopsEggBreadEscalloped Potatoes Plant Butter

285

Ginger Drop-Cakes

Tea

BETTINA'S RECIPES(All

measurements are

level).

Broiled

Lamb Chops (Twochopsi

portions)

2 lamb

t-salt

^Wipe

t-paprika

the chops and place in a red-hot pan over the flame.is

When

the under surface

seared, turn

and sear the other

side.

Turn often for twelve minutes. with salt and paprika.Escalloped PotatoesiVz

When(TwoYzI

nearly cooked, sprinkle

portions)

C-raw potatoes,t-salt

sliced

^

C-milk T-buttert-paprika

I

T-flourI

y^

T-chopped green peppersalt,

Mix

the potatoes,

flour,

paprika and green pepper.

Place in a buttered baking dish or casserole.

Pour the milk

over the mixture and dot with butter.

Put a cover on the dish and allow to cook for half an hour. Remove the cover and allow to cook twenty minutes more. More milk may be added if the mixture is too dry.

EggIII

Plant (Three portions)I

t^g plantt-salt

T-waterC-cracker crumbs

3^

T-egg-yolk

2 T-lard

Peel and slice the tgg plant in slices one-half an inch thick. slice with salt. Place the slices on top and allow to stand for two hours. This drains out the liquid. Wipe each

Sprinkle each

piece with a cloth and dip in the beaten egg-yolk, to which the

water has been added. Dip in the cracker crumbs. Place the lard in a frying-pan, and when very hot, add the slices of ^gg plant. Brown thoroughly on both sides, lower the fire and

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five minutes.

lapping each other.

Ginger Drop-Cakes (Fifteen cakes)I

2^

^I

C-molasses C-boiHng waterC-flour t-soda

2 t-gingerJ/2 3/2

t-salt

C-chopped

raisins

4 T-melted butter

Put the molasses in a bowl, add the boiling water and the dry ingredients, sifted. Then add the raisins and the melted butter. Beat well for two minutes. Pour into buttered muffin pans, filling the pans one-half full. Bake twenty minutes in amoderateove^l.

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CHAPTER LXXXIX

SOME CHRISTMAS PLANS^^/^HRISTMAS^^^lotte asis

in the air today, I believe," said

Charcold

she took off her hat and

warmed her

hands at Bettina's open fire. "You ought to see the children around the toys downtown swarming like flies at the molasses Still, we ought to think about Thanksgiving before we begin our Christmas plans, I suppose." "I try to get all my Christmas packages ready by Thanksgiving," said Bettina. "Of course, I don't always succeed, There is always so much to but it is a splendid aim to have do at the last minute baking and company and candy making! This year we plan to give very few gifts but to send We're racking our a card at least to each of our friends. brains now to think of something that will be individual really ours, you know. I think a tiny snapshot of yourself or your home, or your baby or your dog or even a sprig of holly or a bit of evergreen on a card with a few written words of greeting means more to a friend than all the lovely engraved cards in the world Of course, some people can draw or paint and make their own Alice will, I'm sure. One girl I know makes wonderful fruit cake, and she always sends a piece of it, in a little box tied with holly ribbon, to each of her friends. Aren't the little gifts that aren't too hard on one's purse the

!

!

!

best after

all

especially when theytalk

the giver,

and not merely from theI'll

really store ?"

come

straight

from

"Bettina,

be afraid to send you anything after such an

eloquent sermon as this!"

"Oh, Charlotte, how you

!

I'm telling you

my

idea of

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what a Christmas gift should be, but I'll probably Luncheon is ready, dear." it myself For luncheon Bettina and Mrs. Dixon had:!

far

Mutton

in

RamekinsApple Sauce

Peanut Bread

Rice ButterCoffee

Tokay Grapes

BETTINA'S RECIPES(All

measurements are

level)

Mutton

in

Ramekins (Three portions)ii

V/i C-cold mutton 2/3 C-brown gravyy2 t-salt

I

t-chopped mint egg-yolk egg-white, beaten

stiff

Mix the mutton, gravy, Add the egg-white. Turn

mint and egg-yolk thoroughly. ramekins or china baking dishes. Bake in a moderate oven in a pan of hot water Serve in the ramekins. for twenty-five minutes.salt,

into well-buttered

Rice (Three portions)

^Wash

C-rice 2 qts. boiling water

i i

t-salt

T-butter

the rice, add slowly to the boiling salted water.

Boil

twenty minutes.cold water.

Pour thebutter.

rice in a strainer

Place in the oven for five

and rinse with minutes to dry. Serve

warm, dotted with

Peanut Bread (Twelve2 C-flour 4 t-baking pov^dery2 t-salt

slices)

4i

^flour,

Vi

T-"C" sugar egg C-chopped peanutssugar and

C-milk

Mix

thoroughly the

baking powder,

salt,

peanuts.

the ^gg and milk. Stir vigorously two minutes. Place in a well-buttered bread pan, and bake thirty-five minutesin a

Add

moderate oven.

xcAFTER THE FOOTBALL GAME

C^npHERE-^tina.

are the men now," said Mrs. Dixon, rolling up the hose she had been darning. ''Good !" said Bet"The dinner is just ready for them, and I'm glad they

didn't keep us waiting."

"Hello

!

Hello

!"

shouted Frank and Bob, letting in a gust of

cold air as they opened the door.

"Whew!"

!

It's

cold

1"

"How was"Fine!

the

game?"

39 to o in favor of Blake "Not very exciting, I should think." "Still, Frank here wanted to bet me that Blake would be badly beaten!" "Frank!" said Charlotte in exasperation. "Is that the way you show your loyalty to your home college ?" "Shame on you, Frank!" grinned Bob. "Well, dinnerready?

I'm about starving"Just the kind to

!"

"Bettina has a regular 'after-the-game' dinner tonight," saidCharlotte.

make

a man's heart rejoice!"

"Hurray !" said Bob, stirring up the grate fire. "And afterward we'll have our coffee in here, and toast marsnmallows. Shall we?" "Anything you suggest suits me, "Suits me !" said Frank.if it's

something to eat."

"Dinner's ready," said Bettina.people,

"Come

into the dining-room,

andall

tell

us about the game.this afternoon,

your hose entertainment now."

mended

I have and we deserve a royal

Charlotte and

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"Bettina," said Frank, "doset a dinner like this

when you

before us?"

The menu

consisted of

Flank Steak, Braized with Vegetables Cabbage Salad Butter Bread Brown Betty with Hard SauceCoffee

BETTINA'S RECIPES(Ali^measurements arelevel)

Flank Steak Braized with Vegetables (Four portions)

VA2

lbs. flank steak,

i^

inches

i

T-butterC-sliced,

thick 2 T-flourt-saltI

raw potatoes C-thinly sliced onions^ I green pepper, sliced thin C-tomato pulp

i^

^

vent

Cut with a knife across the grain of the flank steak, to preit from curling up. Sprinkle the flour and one teaspoon ful of salt on both sides of the meat. Dot with butter, and place Over the meat place a thick layer in an oblong baking pan. Add the green pepper, and season of sliced raw potatoes. with one-half a teasponful of salt. Place the onions next and Pour one (One-half a teaspoonful.) the rest of the salt. cup of stewed or raw tomato pulp over all the mixture, and cover the baking pan tightly. Cook slowly in the oven for two hours. One-half hour before the meat is done, remove the cover to allow it to brown. Water may need to be addeato prevent burning.

In serving, very carefully transfer the

steak to a hot platter, preserving the various layers of vegeTo serve, slice down through the layers as through a tables.loaf.

Cabbage Salad (Four portions)t-salt 2 C-chopped cabbage t-paprika 2 pieces of celery ^2 C-salad dressing or enough to moisten

^ %

Chop

the cabbage and the celery fine.

Add

salt,

paprika and

salad dressing.

Serve cold.

With

Bettina's Best Recipesportions)

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Brown Betty (Four2 C-bread crumbs 2 C-sliced apples, pared and cored J4 C-sugari

Hi

t-cinnamon C-water

T-lemonT-butter

juice

I

Ys t-salt

Mix

the crumbs, apples, sugar,

salt

and cinnamon

well.

Pour water and lemontered baking-dish.pieces.

juice over the mixture.

Place in a but-

Place the butter over the top in smalllid

Cover the pan with a

and bake

in a

moderate oven

forty-five to sixty minutes.

Remove

the lid after the

Betty has been cooking twenty-five minutes be needed if the apples are not very juicy.

Brown More water may

Hard Sauce (Four3 T-butter I t-boiling waterii J4

portions)

t-lemon extractt-vanilla extract

^

C-powdered sugar

Cream the butter, add the water and slowly add the sugar. Continue mixing until very creamy. Add the lemon and vaForm into a cube and place in the ice box. Alnilla extract. low to stand half an hour, then cut into slices and serve on topof the

Brown

Betty.

CHAPTER XCI

A THANKSGIVING DINNER

IN

THE COUNTRYwedding, Bettina

AFTER

all

the excitement of

Alice's

was more than delighted when she and Bob were invited "It to a family dinner at Aunt Lucy's on Thanksgiving day. always seems to me the most comfortable and restful place in the world," said she to Bob. "And Aunt Lucy is such a wonWe're very lucky this year, i can tell you I" derful cook, too "Who's to be there?" "Father and mother we are to drive out with them and Aunt Lucy's sister and her big family. Thanksgiving seems more natural with children at the table, I think. And those!

are the

liveliest, rosiest

children!"

morning, and consequently had eaten no breakfast, but he did not regret his keen appetite when Uncle John was carving the great brown turkey. "The children first, John," said kind Aunt Lucy. "Theslept late that

Bob had

grown

folks can wait."

Little

Dick and Sarah had exclaimed with delight at theIn

place cards of proud turkeys standing beside each plate.

the center of the table

was a great wicker basket heaped with

oranges, nuts and raisins."It doesn't seem natural without pumpkin oie," said Aunt Lucy, "but John was all for plum pudding instead." "We can have pie any day," said Uncle John, "but this is a special occasion. What with Dick here and Sarah and Betwho's some cook herself, I can tell you tina I was determined that mother should show her skill And she did didn't

!

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Turkey with Giblet Gravy

Oyster Dressing

Mashed PotatoesBreadNutsCoffee

Creamed OnionsCeleryRaisins

Cranberry FrappeButter

Plum Pudding

Hard Sauce

BETTINA'S RECIPES(All

measurements are

level;

THE THANKSGIVING DINNER RECIPESRoast Turkey (Fourteen portions)I

i2-lb.

turkey

The turkey should be thoroughly cleaned and washed in a pan of water to which one teaspoon of soda has been added to each two quarts of water. Wash the inside with a cloth,rinsing thoroughly, allowing plenty of water to run through the

turkey.

salt, pepper on one side, then until one-half hour before taking from the oven. Then it should be turned on its back, allowing the breast to brown. A twelve pound turkey should be cooked three hours in a moderate oven, basting frequently.all

Dry

well and stuff.

Season

over with

and butter. on the other

When

baking, lay the fowl

first

Oyster Dressing (Fourteen portions)6 C-stale bread crumbs 2 t-salt C-melted butter t-pepper I pt. oysters

14

^

Mix

the ingredients in the order given, adding the oystersFill the

cleaned and drained from the liquor.

turkey and sew

up with needle and

thread.

Preparing the Giblets

Wash

thoroughly the heart, liver and gizzard.it

Cut through

the thick muscle of the gizzard and peel

slowly without

breaking through the inside lining.

Cut the heart open, and remove carefully the gall bladder from the liver. Wash carefully again, and soak ten minutes in salted water. Cook slowly

294Cut

Afine,

Thousand Ways To Please a Husbandone cup of water. More water may be needed. and add to the gravy. Save the stock.

until tender, in

The Gravy1

C-stock

I

2 T-flour

^

T-cold watert-salt

For each cup of Hquor, which is left in the roasting pan, add one tablespoon of flour. Mix the flour with two tablespoons of cold water, add the liquid slowly, and cook two minutes. Add one-fourth of a teaspoon of salt, and the giblets. Serve hot.Creamed Onions (Six portions)2 C-cooked onionsi

C-white saucein

Cook the onionsutensil until tender.

in

one quart of waterServe hot.(Six portions)

(About

fifteen minutes.)

an uncovered Drain and add

one cup of white sauce.

Plum Pudding2 C-soft bread Ya t-soda J4 t-clovesI

t-cinnamon

li t-salt

!

CHAPTER

XCII

PLANNING THE CHRISTMAS CARDSC^

A-/"V.

ND

what

is

in this dish, Bettina?"

asked Bob, as he

Hfted the hot cover.

you'll like them.

"Candied sweet potatoes, dear, and I'm almost sure that I made them in the fireless cooker, and

they're really

more candy thanto

potatoes."

"They'll suit me, then," said Bob.

"The sweeter the

better

cook up candied sweet potatoes with a lot of brown sugar syrup say, but they tasted good about this time of year when I would come in from skating! Well, I

My

mother used

believe these are exactly like hers

!"

"Only hers weren't made in a fireless cooker," said Bettina. as soon as you have allayed your hunger a little we must put our heads together long enough to get an idea for Christmas cards. If we have something made, it may take several weeks, and you know it is no small task to address several hundred of them. As soon as we have ordered them, we'd better make out our Christmas list. But first, what shall

"Now, Bob,

the cards be

?

Think, Bob

!"

Well, how's this?find

"Goodness gracious sakes alive, but thinking is hot work! Suppose we don't have cards engraved they're expensive, and besides, 'twould take too long! We'llor perhaps white go with them, and in the corner of the card we'll stick a tiny round snapshot of the house. Then we'll write this verse very neatly and sign it *Bettina and Bob/ Perhaps you can improve on this, howplain white correspondence cards

some

cards with a red edge

and envelopes

to

ever:

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"We

enclose our Christmas greetings

And the hope that we may know Many happy future meetingsIn this Httle bungalow!"

"Bob, that's the very thing !" cried Bettina. For dinner that night they hadBeefsteakFireless

Sweet Potatoes

Creamed CarrotsPineapple Charlotte

Custard Sauce

BETTINA'S RECIPES(All

measurements are

level)

Fireless

Sweet Potatoes (Candied)i

(Six

Portions)

6 large sweet potatoes I C-brown sugar14

t-salt

%i

C-water

t-pepper T-butterSlice

Wash andin

peel the sweet potatoes.slices.

them lengthwise

one-half inch

Make

a syrup by boiling for five

minutes the brown sugar and water. Add the butter. Arrange the potatoes in a fireless cooker utensil. Sprinkle withsalt

and pepper, and pour the syrup over them.

Place the

heated disks under and over the pan of potatoes, and cook inthe fireless an hour and a half.

Pineapple Charlotte (Four portions)2 T-corn starch

With Bettinas Best RecipesCustard Sauce (Four portions)ij^

297

C-milk

2 egg-yolks

%Mix

H ^

t-vanillat-salt

C-sugar I T-flour % t-lemon extract

well the sugar, salt and flour, gradually add the beaten

Cook in a double boiler until the mixture coats a silver spoon yellow. Add the vanilla and lemon extract. Beat one minute. Serve very cold.egg-yolks, and the milk.

DECEMBER.Boasting turkeys!

Rich mincesize!

pies!

Cakes of every shape and

Santa, though they're fond of you,

,

Christmas needs us housewives, too!

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CHAPTER

XCIII

HARRY AND ALICE RETURN

4tTTrHO can that be?" said VV Bettina, laying downher napkin.

^'SomeoneI

is

at the

door, Bob, I think.

wonder

why he

doesn't ring?"

Bob, throwing open the door. "Why, Bettina When did It's AHce and Harry^'Hello!" said!

you get home?" "We're on our way home now," said Harry, as he set

down

We

the suitcases he was holding. "Say, these are heavy! thought we'd stop in for a minute to rest." "Welcome home !" said Bettina. "Just think, we don't evenyet where

know

you went for your wedding

trip,

though

we

suspected California.""Californiathere were soit

was," said Alice, "along with

all

the other

recent brides and grooms.

We

escaped any particular notice;

many of us. It was rather a relief, though." "Have you had your dinner?" asked Bettina, a little emjust finishing.

barrassed at the thought of the "dinner for two" that she

and Bob wereleft

There was certainly not enough But then, of course there was her ample emergency shelf. "We had our dinner on the diner," said Harry, "or we shouldn't have dared to stop at this hour." "Do come on out to the kitchen," said Bettina. "Bob 19for another person, not to suggest two.

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about to make some delicious sour cream candy, aren't you, Bob? Surely that is a splendid way to entertain a newlyreturned bride and groom."

"Fine !" said Harry, "though we can't stay long. We must hie to our own apartment and get rid of the dust of travel. We're looking forward to the time when we can return some of your hospitality. I shall learn to make even better candythan Bob's For dinner that night Bettina had!"

Pork Chops with Sweet Potatoes Apple Sauce Butter BreadPerfection Salad

Salad Dressing

BETTINA'S RECIPES(All

measurements are

level)

Pork Chops with Sweet Potatoes (Two portions)2 sweet potatoesI

t-salt

t-paprika 2 chops 1/3 C-boiling waterYa

Pare sweet potatoes, add salt and place in the bottom of a Wipe pork chops and place on top of the potatoes. Place the pan, uncovered, on the top shelf of a hot oven in order to brown the chops. Brown on one side and Sprinkle with a then turn gently and brown on the other. little salt and paprika, and add one-third of a cup of boiling Cover, and bake one hour, or until the potatoes are water.small roasting pan.

done.

Baste frequently.Perfection Salad (Three portions)I T-granulated gelatin 4 T-cold water 4 T-vinegarI

^

4 T-sugart-salt

I

2/3 C-diced celery C-shredded cabbage T-lemon juice Vt. i green pepper, chopped C-boiling water 2 T-pimento, cut finelet it

Add

the cold water to the gelatin, and

stand for fivewell.

minutes.

Add

the boiling water.salt,

When

thoroughly dissolved

add the vinegar,

lemon juice and sugar.

Mix

Add

With Bettinas Best Recipesthe celery, cabbage, green pepper and pimento

301the jelly

when

begins to

set.

cold water.

Pour into a mould which has been dipped in Allow to set in a very cold place for one hour.

Serve with salad dressing.Sour Cream Candy (Six portions)2 C-brown sugar C-sour cream ori

t-vanillai

y2

%MixCookuntil a soft ball is

C-sour milk plus t-cream of tartar

^

T-butter

the sugar, cream of tartar and the sour cream or milk.

formed when dropped

in cold water.

Remove fromand place

the fire and allov/ to cool.

Beat until creamy

in a well-buttered pan.

CHAPTER XCIV

THE FIRELIGHT SOCIALwhat have you been doing all day?" asked Bot had related his own experiences at the office. "Just my usual work this morning, and this afternoon I went to a meeting of the social committee of our Young People's League you know I've promised to help this winter. They plan a social to be given in about two weeks to raise money for the orphanage fund, and I do think their idea is a ^^jljLafter he;

\ ND

clever one.cents.

You

see,

it's

a ^firelight social'

;

admission tenit.

Mrs. Lewis has offered her house forall

Invitations

are to be sent to

members of

the church,

Sunday school

and league, inviting peoplefire.'

and read pictures in the little pen and ink Of sketches of hearthstones with burning logs on them. course there will be a huge log in her big fireplace. Then as soon as the guests are gathered around, someone is to read aloud that passage from *Our Mutual Friend,' where Lizzieto *come

The

cards are to be decorated with

Hexampencils

reads the pictures in the firelight for her brother.

Then

be passed among the guests and each one writes a short description of the pictures he sees in the fire. In ten minutes these are collected and read aloud, with a prize

and paper

will

toasted,

Then corn will be popped and marshmallows and weird ghost stories told. (Of course certain clever people have been asked beforehand to be prepared.) Then supper will be served by candlelight; it will consist of things like sandwiches, cider, coffee, nuts and cookies. Don't you thim: a firelight social will be fun?" "Sure it will! But I'm glad to-night we can be alone by !" our own firelight, Bettina 302for the best one.

With Bettinas Best RecipesThat evening for dinner Bettina servedFried Oysters Bettina's Relish:

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Baked Potatoes Asparagus on Toast

Apple TapiocaCoffee

Cream

BETTINA'S RECIPES(All

measurements are

level)

Fried Oysters12 oystersy2I

(Twoi

portions)

T-watert-salt

C-cracker crumbs

^

T-egg

yk t-paprika

2 T-fat

Look over

the selected large oysters to

remove the

shells.

the Qgg, water, salt and paprika. Dip the oyster in the tgg mixture and in the crumbs. Place the fat in the frying-

Mix

pan, and

when hot add

the oysters.

Brown

nicely

side, three minutes.

Serve very hot on a hot

platter.

on each Gar-

nish with parsley.Bettina's Fried-Oyster RelishI

(Two

portions)

I I

C-cabbage, cut fine green pepper, cut fine pimento, cut finet-celery salt

^ Ki

t-mustardt-salt

%

T-"C" sugar

2 T-vinegar

Mix the celery salt, mustard, salt and sugar, add the vinegar. Pour over the pimento, green pepper and cabbage. Serve a a relish with oysters and meats. This relish should be served within one-half hour after it is made.Asparagus on Toast (Two portions)5^2

I

can asparagus tips J4 t-salt C-vegetable white sauce Ys t-pepper 2 slices of toast

Heat the asparagus tips in the liquid in the can. When hot, remove from can upon slices of toast, sprinkle salt and pepper over each portion. Pour one serving of white sauce overeach portion.

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^

4 T-sugart-vanilla

2 sour apples

water for ten minutes in the Add the boiling water and salt. Cook until transparent. (About twenty minutes.) Cut the apples fine, mix thoroughly with the sugar, place in the bottom of a small baking dish, pour the tapioca mixture on

Soak the tapioca

in the cold

upper part of the double

boiler.

them, and bake in a moderate oven until the apples are soft. (About twenty-five minutes. The time depends upon thevariety of apple.)

CHAPTER XCVALICE'S

TROUBLES!

come in Are you going out to dinner, or on your way home from some afternoon party?" "I'm going down town to dinner with Harry I'll meet him there. And afterward we are going to the theatre." "What fun !" "Yes, fun for me," said Alice slowly. "I persuaded him to go. Just think, Bettina, we haven't been to the theatre one !" single time since we've been married "And that is let's see about six weeks?" said Bettina, laughing. "Come into the kitchen, Alice. I'm making a cranAlice,

^^TT /"HY,^^

just

;

berry pie for dinner."

"A

cranberry pie?

One

of those darling criss-crossy ones?"

said Alice joyfully, throwing off her evening cloak.

me

help.

I!

used to make

little

cranberry pies in a saucer!

"Do let when

I was little Harry shall I had forgotten that they existed have one to-morrow !" And she rolled out the crust with

deft fingers.

"Howis

easily

"Yes, too easily.fun, butit's

and quickly you do everything, Alice." Getting breakfast is fun, and getting dinner over too soon. What do you do in the evening,

Bettina?"

"Oh, stay you do?"sitting

at

home and read and mend

mostly.

What do

Don't you get dreadfully bored just around? Harry likes it but I don't see how he can." "But aren't you tired in the evening ? I suppose he is." "Tired ? Mercy no Not with the care of that little apartment I like fun and excitement and something to do in the"That's the trouble.

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A! !

Thousand Ways To Please a HusbandI've been studying

eveningtime

household economy, as you sug-

and

I've learned a lot, but I can't be doing that all theI!"

Well,

must run

on, Bettina

!

Let

me know how

the

pie turns out

That night Bettina served:Bettina's

Baked Potatoes Bread

Pork Chops and Dressing Apple SauceButter Coffee

Cranberry Pie

BETTINA'S RECIPES(All

measurements are

level)

Pork Chops Bettina (Two portions)2 pork chops t-chopped onion I T-chopped green pepper lY C-fresh bread crumbs t-chopped parsleyYzYz t-salti

i

T-melted butter egg-yolkt-celery salt

Y

%i

T-water

Add

the onion, green peppers, parsley, salt and celery salt to

the crumbs.

AddWipe

the egg-yolk, butter and water, andthe chops,

mix

thoroughly.

and place one

in a small

pan (toPlace

serve as a roasting pan), place the dressing on top.the other chop on top of the dressing.

Press together and

bake in a moderate oven one hour. Turn the chops so that Baste occasionally with one-fourth the under one will brown. of a cup of hot water to which has been added one teaspoon of butter. Put a lid on the pan so that the steam will cause Place one tablespoon of water in the pan the chops to cook. Replenish when necesto prevent burning or drying out.sary.

Apple Sauce (Two portions)6 Jonathan apples C-sugar

%

Yi

t-cinnamon Enough water to cover

Wash,and cook

pare, core and quarter the apples.until tender

Cover with waterSprinkle cinna-

when

pierced with a knitting needle.

Add mon

the sugar and cook five minutes more.

over the top

when

serving.

Witfi Bettina's Best RecipesCranberry Pie (Four portions)2 C-cranberries I C-boiling water V/i C-sugar I egg-yolkii

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T-waterT-flourt-butter

^y2

t-almond extract

Cook thesoft.

cranberries and water until the cranberries arethe sugar and cook five minutes.

Add

Mix flour and water, add the egg-yolk, butter and extract. Mix thoroughly. Add to the cranberry mixture. Pour intothe

uncooked

pie-crust.

Place pastry bars

lattice

fashion

across the top, and bake thirty-five minutes in a moderate

oven.Pie Crust (Four portions)I

C-flour

H3

t-sait

5

T-lard

T-water

Mix the flour and salt. Cut in the lard with a knife, and add the water very carefully, to form a stiff dough. Roll into shape, and reserve a small part of the dough for the bars. Fitthe crust carefully into a deep tin pie-pan.Fill the crust

with

the cranberry

filling,

being careful not to

let

Cut the bars two-thirds of an inch wide. and arrange in criss-cross fashion across the

any juice run out. Moisten the ends,pie.

a

CHAPTER XCVI

SOME OF BETTINA'S CHRISTMAS PLANSi^'T^O-NIGHT,"--

said Bettina at the dinner table, "I expect

to finish three

Christmas gifts

one for AHce, one foryou curiousto

Mary and onewhatI've

for Eleanor.

Nowit,"

aren't

know

"Curiosity

been making?" is no name for

said Bob, "but I'm evenit

curious to

know whatIsit

particular thing

isit's

that

more makes thisI

ham

so tender.

baked?

Anyhow,

the best

have

ever eaten."said Bettina, "but you always say that about ham, no matter how it is cooked. But this is a little different. It is baked in milk." "Great, anyhow," said Bob. "Now tell me about your consliced

"Thank you,"

spiracy with Santa Claus."

"Well,tried

I

am making

for Alice an indexed set of recipes

all

card index.

All the recipes are just for two, and they are

and

true."

"Just for two.

Tried and trueSent, with Betty's love, to you."

echoed Bob.withit."

"You can

write that on the card that goes

"I shall have you think what to say on all the gifts. Bob. I must show you the box of cards. It is only a correspondence-

card box, with the white cards towill like her

fit,

but I'm sure that Alice

new cook

book.

Then308

for

Mary and Eleanor

I

:

With

Bettina's Best RecipesMary'sit

309

have made card-table covers.

is

of white Indian head

just

a square of

it,

bound with white tap and with whiteto the table.It is tois

tape at the corners for tying

have a

white monogram.

Eleanor's

is

linen-colored and

green with a green monogram. that finish Mary's this evening

is, if

Hers is finished you will readread?

bound in and I shall

to

me

while

I

work !" "Hurray !" For dinner

said Bob.

"What

shall I

Mark Twain?"

that night they

hadBaked PotatoesButter

Baked Ham Corn Bread

Cranberry Sauce

BETTINA'S RECIPES(All

measurements are

level)

Baked2/3lb.

Ham

(Three portions)

i C-milk slice of ham i T-flour one inch thick I T-water

utes.

Cover the ham with boiling water and let it stand ten minRemove from the pan, and place the ham in a pan just large enough to hold it. Cover with the milk. Place in a moderate oven and bake thirty minutes. More milk may be added if necessary. When