"I tried that, but it didn't do any good. But the other way worked beautifully."
"I'm glad to know about it," said Bettina. "Well, Bob, are you ready? It will take only a few minutes to carry out the dishes and pile them up. I'm sorry we've kept you people waiting."
Cold Sliced Lamb Creamed Potatoes Chili Sauce Escalloped Cabbage Bread Butter Baked Custard
1 C-cooked cabbage 1 T-butter 1 T-flour 1/4 t-salt 1/2 C-milk 2 T-fresh bread crumbs 1 T-melted butter
Melt the butter, add the flour and salt, and mix well. Slowly pour over the milk and cook until creamy. Add the cabbage. Pour into a buttered baking dish. Add bread crumbs to melted butter, and place the buttered crumbs on the cabbage. Bake in a moderate oven for fifteen minutes, or until the crumbs are browned.
12 large, ripe tomatoes 3 green peppers 2 onions 2 T-salt 2 T-sugar 1 T-ground cinnamon 3 C-vinegar
Peel the tomatoes and onions, and chop separately very fine. Chop the pepper also, and add the salt, sugar and cinnamon. Mix all the ingredients together and add the vinegar. Cook one and one-half hours over a moderate fire, stirring sufficiently to prevent sticking. Bottle, and when cool, seal with paraffin.
2 eggs 2 C-milk 4 T-sugar 1/8 t-salt A few gratings of nutmeg 1/4 t-vanilla
Beat the eggs slightly, add the sugar and milk slowly. Add salt and flavoring. Stir well. Pour into well-buttered cups. Sprinkle the nutmeg gratings on the top. Set the cups in a pan of hot water and bake in a moderate oven until a knife comes out clean upon piercing the custard (about thirty-five minutes). Do not allow the water in the pan to boil. Serve the custard cold, removing from the cups just before ready to serve. The custards may be served in cups.
"OH, Ruth!" called Bettina from her door to Ruth, who was walking past. "Come in and stay to dinner!"
"I'm going to have baking powder biscuits, and I remember that you were longing to learn how to make them."
"Oh, Bettina! Would you really show me? I'll simply have to come, then. I hesitated because Aunt Martha is here, but I know she'll excuse me for one evening. What time is it? Five? I'll take these packages home and be back in fifteen minutes!"
When Ruth returned she found Bettina in her kitchen with all of the ingredients for the biscuits set out on the table.