C Bettina Gives a Dinner

Peanut Butter and Fruit Rolls (Eight rolls) 1½ C-flour 3 t-baking powder 2 T-lard ¼ t-salt ½ C-milk 2 T-peanut butter 3 T-currants ½ T-butter

Mix the flour, baking powder and salt thoroughly, cut in the lard with a knife until the consistency of cornmeal. Add the milk, mixing with a knife until a soft dough is formed. More milk may be needed; this depends on the consistency of the flour. Pat into a rectangular shape, on a floured board or on a paper. The dough should be half an inch thick. Cream the butter, add the peanut butter and spread on the biscuit dough. Sprinkle the currants on the top. Roll up carefully, over and over like a cinnamon roll. Cut off pieces half an inch wide and pat them down in a tin pan. Bake eighteen minutes in a moderate oven. Pear Salad (Three portions) 3 halves of pears ½ C-cottage cheese ¼ t-salt 1/8 t-paprika 2 T-nut meats 2 dates, cut fine 1 T-pimento, cut fine 5 T-salad dressing 3 lettuce leaves

Mix the cottage cheese, salt, paprika, nut meats, dates and pimento thoroughly. Add two tablespoons of salad dressing. Arrange the pears on the lettuce leaves and place one tablespoon of the mixture on each portion. Place a tablespoon of salad dressing on the top. Serve very cold.

Cheese Wafers

6 salted wafers ½ T-butter 2 T-yellow cream cheese ½ T-pimento, cut fine 1/8 t-salt 1/8 t-paprika

Cream the butter, add the cheese, pimento, salt and paprika and mix into a paste. Spread carefully on top of the wafers. Place in a moderate oven until a delicate brown. Serve with the salad.

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MAY.

Scrub and polish,—sweep and clean,——

Fling your windows wide! See, the trees are clad in green!

Coax the spring inside! Home, be shining fair to-day For the guest whose name is May!

CHAPTER CXLIII

IN HOUSECLEANING TIME

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