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

by Louise Bennett Weaver; Helen Cowles LeCron

"I shall certainly try it tomorrow, Bettina!"

For dinner that night Bettina served:

Breaded Veal Creamed Potatoes
Browned Sauce
Spinach with Hard Cooked Eggs
Bread Butter
Spiced Peaches
Fig Pudding Foamy Sauce
Coffee

BETTINA'S RECIPES

(All measurements are level)

Breaded Veal (Four portions)

1 lb. veal round steak, cut one-half an inch thick
1 T-egg (either the white or the yolk)
1 T-water
²/₃ C-cracker crumbs, or dry bread crumbs
2 T-lard
¼ t-salt
1 T-butter
¹/₈ t-paprika

Wipe the meat with a damp cloth, and cut into four pieces. Mix the egg, water, salt and paprika, and dip each piece of meat into the egg mixture. Roll in the crumbs and pat the crumbs into the meat. Place the lard in the frying-pan, and when hot, add the meat. Brown well on one side, and then turn, allowing the other side to become the same even color. Lower the flame under the meat, and cook thirty minutes, keeping the pan covered. When the meat has cooked twenty-five minutes, add the butter to lend flavor to the lard.

Browned Gravy (Four portions)

1 T-butter
2 T-flour
½ t-salt
½ C-water
¼ C-milk