3 potatoes
¾ t-salt
Peel the potatoes, salt them with one-fourth a teaspoon of salt in each potato, and place them in the pan with the meat. This gives the potatoes a good flavor.
Bettina's Apricot Cobbler (Three portions)
1 C-cooked and sweetened apricots
1 T-flour
½ t-cinnamon
1 C-flour
2 t-baking powder
1/3 t-salt
2 T-butter
1/3 C-milk
1/3 C-sugar
½ C-water
½ t-vanilla
Mix the apricots, one tablespoon flour and cinnamon. Mix and sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Cut in the butter with a knife. Add the milk until a soft dough is formed. Place the apricot mixture in a baking-dish and the dough on top of the apricots. Cook the water and sugar together for three minutes. Add the vanilla. When the cobbler has baked fifteen minutes pour syrup over it. Bake ten minutes more in a moderate oven.
CHAPTER LVII
A RAINBOW ANNOUNCEMENT LUNCHEON
"OH, Bettina, how lovely!" cried the ten guests in a chorus, as Ruth and Bettina ushered them into the softly lighted dining-room. Not one had had even a glimpse of the luncheon table before, for Ruth had been entertaining them on the porch while Bettina put on the finishing touches. It all seemed a burst of soft rainbow colors. "What is it?" cried someone. "How did you ever get the rainbow effect?"