XXXIV Bettina Gives a Porch Breakfast

"I'm glad you like it. But I forgot to tell you, Bob, that I'm to have all the apples I can use in the fall. Uncle John has promised them to me. Then Mother says we'll make cider. Won't that be fine?" "I should say it will! Cider and doughnuts and pumpkin pie! Makes me long for fall already! But then, I like green corn and watermelon and peaches, so I suppose I can wait."

That evening Bettina served:

Sliced Beef Loaf Sautéd Potatoes Creamed Corn Cinnamon Rolls Butter Peach Cobbler Cream

BETTINA'S RECIPES

(All measurements are level) Sautéd Potatoes (Two portions) 2 large potatoes cooked 2 T-lard ½ t-salt ¼ t-pepper

Peel cold boiled potatoes. Put two tablespoons of lard in the frying-pan. When hot, add the potatoes and season well with salt and pepper. Brown thoroughly on all sides. (They should cook about ten minutes.) Creamed Corn (Two portions) 1 C-corn cut from the cob ½ C-water 1 t-butter 1 T-milk or cream ½ t-sugar ¼ t-salt

Cook the corn and water together very slowly for twenty minutes, or until the water is all cooked out. (Place on an asbestos mat to prevent burning.) Add butter, milk, sugar and salt. Serve hot. Cinnamon Rolls (Twelve rolls) 2 T-sugar ½ t-salt 1 C-milk (scalded and lukewarm) 1 yeast cake ¼ C-lukewarm water 1½ C-flour 3 T-butter 4 T-sugar

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¼ C-butter ½ C-sugar

Mix sugar, salt and scalded milk. When lukewarm, add the yeast cake dissolved in one-fourth of a cup of lukewarm water. Add one and a half cups flour. Cover and set in a warm place to rise. When double in bulk, add the butter (melted), four tablespoons sugar and more flour (enough to knead). Let rise, knead and roll into a sheet half an inch thick, spread with a mixture made by adding melted butter, one and a fourth cups sugar and the cinnamon. Roll up like a jelly roll. Cut in slices three-fourths inch thick. Place in a pan one inch apart, let rise again. Bake in a moderately hot oven twenty-five minutes. Peach Cobbler (Two portions) 1 C-flour 1 t-baking powder 1/8 t-salt 1 T-butter ¼ C-milk 3 good-sized peaches 1/3 C-sugar ¼ t-vanilla ¼ C-sugar ¼ C-water

Cut the butter into the dry ingredients (baking powder, salt and flour), and add the milk. (The resulting dough should be of biscuit dough consistency.) Peel and slice the peaches, mix well with the sugar (one-third cup) and place on the bottom of a baking dish (not tin.) Place dough shaped to fit on the top of the peaches. Make three holes to allow the steam to escape. Bake thirty minutes in a moderate oven. Boil the sugar and water four minutes. When the cobbler has cooked for twenty minutes, pour the syrup over it and allow to cook ten minutes more. Cream may be served with the cobbler if desired.

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CHAPTER XLVII

AFTER A PARK PARTY

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BEAUTIFUL day," said Bettina at the breakfast table. "September is doing better than August." "I was just thinking," said Bob, "that it might be fun to get Harry and Alice, and go out to Killkare park this evening. I don't believe you've been on a roller coaster this year." "It would be fun to go," said Bettina, "although I haven't missed the roller coaster."

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"Well, let's ask them to go. We can stay there awhile and then——" "Then what?" "Oh, nothing. Then go home." "Bob, you meant—come here afterward and have a nice little lunch; didn't you?" "I confess that I thought of that, and then I happened to remember that you were going out this afternoon and wouldn't want to bother with any preparations for a party." "Going out this afternoon would not worry me at all—it is just that my funds are getting a little low, and I couldn't serve anything expensive. Let me think what I have on hand—yes, I believe I could do it by serving a salad and a dessert out of my own head." "A Bettina salad? That's the very best kind. And what will the dessert be?" "A Bettina dessert, too. I have some lovely apples, Bob, and I just can't afford anything very expensive. I know this will be good, too, but you mustn't complain if I have sponge cake to eat with it." "I should say not, Bettina. Whatever you give us will tickle me, and Alice and Harry are in such a state of blindness that they won't know what they're eating."

That evening they had: Bettina Salad Boston Brown Bread Sandwiches Bettina's Apples Sponge Cake Coffee

BETTINA'S RECIPES

(All measurements are level) Bettina Salad (Four portions) 1 C-chopped New York cheese 12 Pimento stuffed olives, chopped 3 sweet pickles, chopped very fine ¼ C-chopped roasted peanuts ¼ t-salt 1/8 t-paprika 4 T-salad dressing 4 pieces of lettuce

Put the cheese through the food chopper or grate it, add the olives chopped, the sweet pickles, peanuts, salt and paprika. Blend well, and form into balls, one inch in diameter. Arrange several on a lettuce leaf. Serve salad dressing with the salad. Bettina's Apples (Six apples) 6 apples 1 C-"C" sugar

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