XCVII More of Bettina's Christmas Shopping

2 C-milk 1 t-salt ¼ t-paprika

Cook the peas, water and sugar slowly for fifteen minutes. Strain, and rub all the pulp through the strainer. Melt the butter, add the flour, salt and paprika. Mix thoroughly and gradually add the milk. Boil one minute and add the pulp and liquid from the peas. Cook one minute. Serve in hot soup plates or bouillon cups. Toasted Sticks (Four portions) 3 slices of bread 1 T-butter ½ t-salt

Cut the slices of bread one-half an inch thick. Butter, and sprinkle with salt. Cut into strips, the length of the slice and half an inch wide. Place on a tin pan, and cook directly under a fire or in an oven until a delicate brown. Serve warm. Ground Pork Croquettes (Four croquettes) 1 C-chopped, cooked pork 1/8 t-paprika ¼ t-celery salt 1/8 t-onion salt ¼ t-salt 1 T-pimento, cut fine ½ T-butter 1 T-flour 1/3 C-milk 1/3 C-crumbs 2 T-egg 1 T-water

Melt the butter, add the flour, paprika, celery salt, onion salt, salt and pimento. Gradually add the milk and cook thoroughly for one minute. Add the meat and allow the mixture to cool. When cool, shape into the desired shape, preferably conical. Roll in the crumbs, dip in the egg and water mixed, then dip in the crumbs and allow to stand for fifteen minutes or more. Fry in deep fat. Date Pudding (Four portions) 2 egg-whites ½ C-sugar 4 T-flour 1/8 t-salt 1 t-baking powder ½ C-dates, cut fine ½ C-nut meats, cut fine ¼ t-vanilla

Beat the egg whites thoroughly, add the sugar, flour, salt and baking powder. Mix well, add the dates, nuts and vanilla. Pile lightly in a well-buttered bakingdish. Place the dish in a pan of hot water and bake thirty minutes in a moderate

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oven. Allow the pudding to remain in the oven a little while after the heat is turned off. If cooled slowly, it will not fall. The pudding may be baked in individual moulds if preferred, and may be served with whipped cream.

CHAPTER CXXXVIII

FURS TO PUT AWAY

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walk!" PENNY for your thoughts!"

Bettina started in surprise. "Why, Ruth, I didn't see you coming up the

"I knew you didn't. But what on earth are you doing out here on your front steps? Enjoying the weather?" "Indeed I am! Isn't it a wonderful spring day? But my thoughts weren't very poetic, I must admit. I was just wondering if it was too early to put away my furs for the summer. I'm always tempted to do that when the first signs of spring appear, and then I'm generally sorry a few days later." "I'll have to put mine away soon, too. Do tell me, Bettina, just how you go about

it."

"Well, I always hang mine in the sun for a while, then I beat them well, comb them out with a steel comb, and wrap them up." "With moth-balls?" "That is a good way, but not at all necessary. I always wrap mine in a newspaper —a good tight package. Moths don't like printer's ink, you know, and furs so wrapped are perfectly safe." "Then, Bettina, you don't need to add that you label the package, for I know that you do, you thoroughly thorough housekeeper!"

Bettina laughed. "Well, Ruth, I do label it. Labelled packages are so much better to have, for very often you need to get something out in a hurry."

For dinner that night Bettina served: Broiled Steak Lyonnaise Potatoes Bean Salad Bread Butter Date Rocks Coffee

BETTINA'S RECIPES

(All measurements are level)

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