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

by Louise Bennett Weaver; Helen Cowles LeCron

(All measurements are level)

Bettina's Potato Salad (Twelve portions)

3 C-cold boiled potatoes, diced
1 C-diced celery
½ C-diced hard-cooked egg
¼ C-diced sweet pickles
3 T-diced pimento
2 t-salt
1 T-chopped onion
1 C-salad dressing
12 lettuce leaves

Mix all the ingredients in the order named. Serve the salad very cold on crisp lettuce leaves.

Bettina's Spiced Beets (Twelve portions)

5 large, cooked beets, sliced
½ C-vinegar
1 T-"C" sugar
6 cloves
1 t-salt
¹/₈ t-pepper

Heat the vinegar, add the cloves, sugar, salt and pepper. Pour over the beets, cut in one-third inch slices. Allow to stand one hour before serving.

Molasses Puffs (Twelve portions)

¾ C-molasses
¾ C-sugar
½ C-hot water
¹/₃ C-butter and lard (melted)
1 egg, well beaten
2 t-ginger
1 t-cinnamon
2 t-soda
3 C-flour

Mix the molasses and sugar. Add the hot water and fat. Beat well, add the egg and mix thoroughly. Sift the ginger, cinnamon, flour and soda together, and add to the rest of the ingredients, mixing well. Fill well-buttered muffin pans three-fourths full. Bake in a moderate oven for twenty-five minutes. Ice with "C" sugar icing.