Cherry Sauce (Three portions)
½ C-cherry juice
½ C-water
1 T-flour
½ t-lemon extract
1/8 t-salt
2 T-sugar
¼ C-cherries, cut fine
Mix the flour, salt and sugar. Add slowly the cherry juice and water. Cook two minutes. Add the cherries and extract. Serve hot over the cold pudding.
CHAPTER CXII
RUTH GIVES A DINNER FOR FOUR
BETTINA and Bob arrived at half-past six, as Ruth had requested.
"She wouldn't let me come earlier, Bob," explained Bettina as they rang the bell. "I wanted to help her, you know, but she said her father and mother were out of town and Fred was to be the only guest besides ourselves, so she was sure that she could manage alone. There she is now!"
But it was not Ruth after all.