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

by Louise Bennett Weaver; Helen Cowles LeCron

That Sunday evening Bettina served:

Chicken a la King Toast
Cakes with Bettina Icing
Coffee

BETTINA'S RECIPES

(All measurements are level)

Chicken a la King (Eight portions)

1½ C-cold boiled chicken, cut in ²/₃-inch cubes
½ t-salt
¹/₃ C-button mushrooms, cut in fourths
4 T-pimento, cut in half-inch lengths
2 T-green pepper, cut fine
5 T-butter or chicken fat
6 T-flour
1½ t-salt
½ t-paprika
2 C-milk
2 egg-yolks
8 pieces of toast

Boil the green pepper slowly for five minutes. Drain off the water. Melt the butter, add the flour, salt and paprika, mix thoroughly, and add the milk, stirring constantly. Cook three minutes or until quite thick. Remove from the fire, beat one minute, reheat, add the egg-yolk, mix thoroughly, and add the chicken mixture. Heat again. Serve immediately by pouring over slices of toast.

To prepare the chicken mixture, thoroughly mix the chicken, half a teaspoon of salt, the mushrooms, the cooked green pepper and the pimento.

Small Cakes (Fourteen cakes)