1000 ways to please a husband
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Here's a nice little book from 1917, intended to help new brides provide their hubbies with delicious food! All chauvinism aside, the recipes are very appealing. This is a scan of the original book, in color. Enjoy!TRANSCRIPT
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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
.
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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A
Thousand Ways To Please a HusbandI
"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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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
With Bettinas Best Recipes
19
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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A
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
276
A
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
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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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279
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.
A
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
j
;
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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
286cook
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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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she?"
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293
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!
!
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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Thousand Ways To Please a HusbandApple Tapioca (Two portions)4 T-pearl tapioca 3 T-cold water I C-boiling waterYs t-salt
^
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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306gested,
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