"Well, she seems to be suited, all right. But I must fly into an apron if you boys are to get any dinner within a half-hour. Jack, you'll have to pardon me if after all of Bob's eloquence I give you a meal of left-overs——" "Don't apologize to a bachelor, Bettina. He probably won't know left-overs from the real thing," said Bob. "Bachelors are said to be the most critical of all," she answered. "But I'll do my little best to please." That night Bettina served: [223]
Roast Beef Pie Bread
Butter Sliced Tomatoes with Salad Dressing Marble Cake Coffee BETTINA'S RECIPES (All measurements are level) Roast Beef Pie (Three portions) 2 C-chopped cold roast beef 1 C-gravy 1 C-cold diced potatoes (cooked) 2 T-chopped onion 1 C-flour 2 t-baking powder 2 t-lard 1/ t-salt 8 6 T-milk
Mix the beef, gravy, potato and onion. Place in a shallow buttered baking dish. Make a biscuit dough by cutting the lard into the flour, which has been sifted with the baking powder, and salt, and gradually adding the milk. Pat the dough into shape and arrange carefully on top of the meat. Make holes in the top to allow the steam to escape. Bake in a moderate oven twenty minutes. Marble Cake (Fourteen slices) 1 C-sugar ½ C-butter Cream together and divide into two parts, half for light and half for dark. Dark Part To one half add: ¼ C-molasses ½ C-milk 2 egg-yolks 1 C-flour 1 t-baking powder
