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

by Louise Bennett Weaver; Helen Cowles LeCron

Oatmeal with Dates (Six portions)

1 C-oatmeal
1½ C-water
1 t-salt
½ C-dates, cut fine

Mix the oatmeal, salt and water, and cook directly over the fire for three minutes. Add the dates, put in the fireless, and cook all night. Serve with unsweetened whipped cream.

Ham Cooked in Milk (Four portions)

1 lb. ham (a slice two-thirds of an inch thick)
1 C-milk

Pour boiling water over the ham, and allow it to stand ten minutes. Remove the ham, and place in the frying-pan. Add the milk, and allow to cook slowly for twenty-five minutes. Remove from the milk and garnish with parsley.

Muffins (Twelve muffins)

2 C-flour
4 t-baking powder
¹/₃ C-sugar
½ t-salt
1 egg
1 C-milk
2 t-melted butter

Mix the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt. Add the egg, beaten, and milk, and beat two minutes. Add the melted butter. Fill well-buttered muffin pans one-half full. Bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven.

Waffles (Six portions)