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¼ t-salt 1/8 t-paprika

Butter two individual moulds, and break an egg into each. Mix the salt and pepper in the milk, and pour half of the mixture over each egg. Melt the butter, and add the crumbs. Place the buttered crumbs on top of each egg. Bake in a moderate oven twenty minutes. Serve in the moulds. Potatoes Escalloped with Bacon (Two portions) 3 medium-sized potatoes 3 slices of bacon ¼ t-salt 1/8 t-paprika 2 T-flour 1 C-milk

Broil the bacon, cut each piece in three parts. Butter a casserole and place in it a layer of peeled sliced potatoes. Sprinkle part of the flour, salt and paprika over the potatoes, and add three pieces of bacon. Continue in this manner until the dish is filled. Pour the milk over the contents, and bake forty minutes in a moderate oven. Peach Cup (Two portions) 4 halves of canned peaches, sweetened 1 T-egg 3 T-milk 2/3 C-flour 1½ t-baking powder 1/8 t-salt 1 t-melted butter ¼ t-vanilla 2 T-sugar

Mash two peach halves, add the egg, milk, vanilla, melted butter, flour, baking powder and salt. Mix thoroughly. Place a tablespoon of the mixture in the bottom of a well-buttered baking cup. Add a peach half, and cover with the batter. Sprinkle one tablespoon of granulated sugar on the top and bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven. Turn from the cups and serve hot with peach sauce. Peach Sauce (Two portions) 2/3 C-peach juice 1 T-lemon juice 1 T-flour ½ t-butter ¼ t-salt

Mix one tablespoon of the peach juice with the flour. Gradually add the rest of the peach and lemon juice. Add the salt Cook one minute. Add the butter. Serve hot.

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CHAPTER CXIV

A COMPANY DINNER FOR BOB

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OME dinner tonight," remarked Bob, as he sat down at the table. "Were you expecting company that didn't show up?" "No, indeed," laughed Bettina. "I expected just you and nobody else. But maybe I did cook a little more than usual. You see I was over at Alice's this afternoon inspecting her list of next week's menus. You know she is trying to economize, and she is really doing it, but in spite of economy, Harry is having elaborate meals. I do hope he appreciates it. Nearly all of her dinners are three-course affairs, most carefully planned to look like 'the real thing' as she calls an expensive dinner. I tell her that hers are the real thing, only almost too elaborate. You see, she is trying to disguise her economy so that Harry won't miss the first meals she gave him. She makes me almost afraid that I'm not feeding you enough." "No danger of that," said Bob, emphatically. "But what are all these economical things she is serving?" "Wait, I wrote some of them down. Listen. Here is one: Peanut Croquettes Olive Sauce Duchess Potatoes Creamed Beets Parker House Rolls Orange Marmalade Pea and Cheese Salad Wafers Apricot Ice Sponge Cake "How's that? And here's another: Creamed Tuna Stuffed Potatoes Mock Egg Plant Whole Wheat Muffins Grape Jelly Russian Salad Fairy Gingerbread Hard Sauce "Well," said Bob, "they sound good, but not so good as the dinners you give me."

That evening Bettina served: Escalloped Salmon Baked Potatoes Creamed Cabbage Egg Rolls Currant Jelly Chocolate Kisses Coffee

BETTINA'S RECIPES

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(All measurements are level) Escalloped Salmon (Two portions) 2/3 C-flaked salmon 1 T-butter 1 T-flour 2/3 C-milk ½ t-salt ¼ t-paprika 1 hard-cooked egg 1 t-lemon juice 3 T-chopped sour pickle ½ t-minced parsley 4 T-cracker crumbs 1 T-butter

Melt the butter, add the flour and mix well. Add the milk and cook one minute. Add the salmon, salt, paprika, egg diced, lemon juice, pickle and parsley. Mix thoroughly with a silver fork, being careful not to let the mixture get pasty. Pour into a well-buttered baking dish, melt the butter and add the crumbs. Place buttered crumbs on the top. Bake twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven. Egg Rolls (Two portions) 1½ C-flour 2 t-baking powder ¼ t-salt 2 T-lard 1 T-egg ½ C-milk

For the Top

1 T-milk 1 t-sugar

Mix and sift the flour, baking powder and salt. Cut in the fat with a knife. Add the egg and milk, using the knife to make a soft dough. Toss onto a floured board. Roll out to a thickness of one-fourth an inch. Cut out with a round cooky cutter, three inches in diameter. Brush over with milk. Fold over like pocket-book rolls. Place in a tin pan and brush over the top with one tablespoon of milk to which has been added one teaspoon of sugar. Bake in a moderate oven for twenty minutes. Chocolate Kisses (Fourteen kisses) 1 C-powdered sugar 2 egg-whites 1 C-fine bread crumbs 2 ounces melted chocolate 1 t-cinnamon 1 t-vanilla 1 t-baking powder

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