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

by Louise Bennett Weaver; Helen Cowles LeCron

Hard Sauce

¹/₃ C-butter
2 T-hot water
¾ C-brown sugar
½ t-vanilla
½ t-lemon extract

Cream the butter, add water and gradually add the sugar. Continue mixing until very creamy. Add the vanilla and lemon extract. Chill and serve over the hot pudding.

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CHAPTER XCII

PLANNING THE CHRISTMAS CARDS

"AND what is in this dish, Bettina?" asked Bob, as he lifted the hot cover.

"Candied sweet potatoes, dear, and I'm almost sure that you'll like them. I made them in the fireless cooker, and they're really more candy than potatoes."

"They'll suit me, then," said Bob. "The sweeter the better! My mother used to cook up candied sweet potatoes with a lot of brown sugar syrup—say, but they tasted good about this time of year when I would come in from skating! Well, I believe these are exactly like hers!"