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

by Louise Bennett Weaver; Helen Cowles LeCron

Bettina's Mexican Salad (Four portions)

1 cucumber diced
2 tomatoes cut in one-inch cubes
1 C-cut celery
¼ C-cooked beets
1 T-chopped parsley
2 T-green pepper, cut fine
¹/₃ C-cottage cheese
1 t-salt
²/₃ C-salad dressing
4 lettuce leaves

Mix all the ingredients in order given and serve on lettuce leaves.

Brown Bread (Baked) (Two loaves)

2 C-graham flour
2 C-white flour
2 t-soda
1 t-salt
½ C-molasses
2 C-sour milk

Mix well the graham flour, white flour, soda and salt. Add the molasses and sour milk; mix thoroughly. Pour into two well-buttered bread tins, and bake forty minutes in a moderate oven.

Orange Cake (Sixteen pieces)

¹/₃ C-butter
1 C-sugar
2 eggs beaten separately
Grated rind of one orange
3 t-baking powder
¼ t-salt
¼ C-orange juice
¼ C-milk
1²/₃ C-flour
½ t-lemon extract

Cream the butter, add the sugar and egg-yolks; mix thoroughly. Add the orange rind. Add the baking powder, salt and flour sifted together and then the orange juice and milk. Mix, and beat one minute. Add the egg-whites beaten stiffly, and the lemon extract. Bake in two square cake tins fitted with waxed paper for twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven.