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

by Louise Bennett Weaver; Helen Cowles LeCron

That evening they had:

Cold Sliced Ham Creamed Potatoes
Tomatoes Stuffed with Rice
Peach Butter
Chocolate Pie
Coffee

BETTINA'S RECIPES

(All measurements are level)

Tomatoes Stuffed with Rice (Six portions)

6 tomatoes
½ C-rice, cooked
½ C-green pepper, chopped
2 T-grated cheese
1 t-chopped onion
¼ t-salt
1 T-butter

Remove a piece one inch in diameter from the stem end of each tomato. Take out the seeds. Fill the shells with the rice, pepper, cheese, onion and salt, well mixed. Place a small dot of butter on top of each. Place in a small pan and bake twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven.

Chocolate Pie Crust (Six portions)

1 C-flour
¹/₃ C-lard
¼ t-salt
3 T-ice water

Mix the flour and salt, cut in the lard with a knife, add the liquid slowly, stirring with the knife. More water may be needed. Roll out thin, fit onto a tin pan, prick with holes, and bake in a hot oven until light brown (about seven minutes).