8 t-pepper ½ t-sugar 1/
Mix the corn, egg, bread crumbs, salt, pepper and sugar. Shape into cakes two inches in diameter and one-half an inch thick. Grease a griddle or a frying-pan thoroughly, and when very hot, place fritters on the pan. When brown on one side, turn over onto the other side. Serve hot, with syrup.
CHAPTER XLI
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BETTINA ENTERTAINS STATE FAIR VISITORS
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HE next morning when Bob and Uncle Eric had partaken of a cereal-less breakfast, and Uncle Eric had even complimented the cook, Bettina called her mother on the telephone. "I was about to call you, Bettina. Won't you go to the fair with us this afternoon? You know Cousin Mabel and the children are here from Ford Center, and Cousin Wilfred may arrive some time this morning." "You do have your hands full this week, don't you, Mother? Uncle Eric is at home only for breakfast, and I called up to ask if you would all come here to dinner tonight." "Oh, Bettina! I'm afraid it will be too much work for you, dear!" "I'll plan a simple meal, Mother; one that I can get together in a hurry. In fact I've already planned it." "But, in that case, you couldn't go to the fair with us this afternoon, could you? And it's said to be especially good today." "Why, yes, I could go. I can get the most of my dinner ready this morning. What time would you start?" "At two, I think. Well, Bettina, we'll come, but you must make the meal simple, for we won't be back till six." "Don't worry, Mother." Bettina hastened to make her preparations, and at half after one her house was in order and she was ready to go. Besides, she was comfortably conscious of a wellfilled larder—cold fried chicken ready and waiting, cold boiled potatoes to be creamed, green corn to be boiled, peaches to be sliced, and delicious chocolate cookies to delight the hearts of the children. "It will take only a few moments," she thought as she arranged the nasturtiums on her dining table, "to set the table, cream the potatoes, boil the corn, slice the peaches and make the tea. And I believe it's the sort of a dinner that will suit them."
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