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

by Louise Bennett Weaver; Helen Cowles LeCron

Corned Beef au Gratin (Three portions)

1½ C-milk
½ slice of onion
1 piece of celery
2 T-flour
2 T-butter
1 egg
1 t-salt
¼ t-paprika
1 C-chopped corned beef

Place the milk, onion and celery over the fire. Allow to get very hot. Remove from the fire and let stand for ten minutes. Remove the celery and onion from the milk. Melt the butter, add the flour. Mix well and slowly add the milk. Cook until the consistency of white sauce. Add the egg, well beaten, the salt, paprika, and beef. Pour into well-buttered individual dishes.

Place in a moderate oven and bake twenty-five minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to stand two minutes. Remove from the moulds and garnish with parsley.

Baked Tomatoes and Cheese (Three portions)

1 C-canned tomatoes
½ t-salt
¼ t-paprika
¼ C-fresh bread crumbs
3 T-cheese, cut fine
¼ C-cooked celery
1 T-butter

Mix the tomatoes, salt, paprika, cheese and celery. Add half the bread crumbs. Pour into a well-buttered baking dish. Melt the butter, add the remaining crumbs and place on top of the mixture. Bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven.

Gluten Bread (Ten slices)

1 C-gluten flour
1½ t-baking powder
¼ t-salt
¼ C-bran
2 T-sugar
¹/₃ C-milk
¹/₃ C-water
1 t-melted butter

Mix the flour, baking powder, salt, bran and sugar. Add the milk and water. Beat vigorously for one minute and then add the butter. Pour into a well-buttered bread pan and bake forty minutes in a moderate oven.