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

by Louise Bennett Weaver; Helen Cowles LeCron

4 Jonathan apples
8 T-"C" sugar
2 t-cinnamon
1 C-water
½ t-vanilla

Wash and core the apples. Fill each with one tablespoon of sugar and one-half teaspoon of cinnamon. Place in a small tin pan just large enough to hold them. Add the water and the rest of the sugar, and bake forty-five minutes in a moderate oven. Baste frequently with the syrup. After the apples have cooked thirty minutes, add the vanilla to the syrup.

Bettina's Cottage Pudding (Four portions)

½ C-sugar
¼ t-salt
1 C-flour
2 t-baking powder
3 T-chopped nuts
½ t-vanilla
1 egg
½ C-milk
3 T-melted butter

Mix the sugar, salt, flour, baking powder and nuts. Add the egg and milk and mix well. Add the vanilla. Beat vigorously for two minutes, and then add the melted butter. Pour into well-buttered gem pans, filling each half full. Bake fifteen minutes in a moderate oven. Serve with chocolate sauce.

Chocolate Sauce (Four portions)

½ C-sugar
2 T-flour
1 C-water
¹/₈ t-salt
1 square of chocolate
¼ t-vanilla

Mix thoroughly the sugar, flour and salt. Add the water and the chocolate. Cook slowly until the chocolate is melted (about two minutes). Add the vanilla and serve hot. If too thick, add more water until the desired consistency is reached.

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