A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband with Bettina's Best Recipes

by Louise Bennett Weaver; Helen Cowles LeCron

"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
1 C-water
8 marshmallows
½ C-cocoanut shredded
6 cherries