6 hard-cooked eggs
1 t-vinegar
¼ t-mustard
1 t-melted butter
¼ t-chopped parsley
¼ t-salt
Shell the eggs, cut lengthwise in half, remove yolks, mash them and add vinegar, mustard, melted butter, parsley and salt. Refill the whites and put pairs together. Wrap in tissue paper with frilled edges to represent torpedoes.
Moist Chocolate Cake (Ten portions)
1/3 C-butter
1 C-sugar
2 eggs
½ C-hot mashed potatoes
1 ounce melted chocolate
¼ C-milk
1 C-flour
1¾ t-baking powder
½ t-cinnamon
¼ t-clove
½ t-nutmeg
1 t-vanilla
Cream the butter, add the sugar. Mix well. Add the egg yolks, slightly beaten, and the potato. Stir, add the chocolate, milk and then all the dry ingredients which have been mixed and sifted together. Fold in the white of the eggs beaten stiffly. Add the vanilla. Pour into two layer-cake pans which have been prepared with waxed paper. Bake in a moderate oven for thirty minutes. Ice with white mountain cream icing.
CHAPTER IX
UNCLE JOHN AND AUNT LUCY MAKE A VISIT
UNCLE JOHN and Aunt Lucy had driven Bob and Bettina home from a Sunday spent in the country.