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

by Louise Bennett Weaver; Helen Cowles LeCron

Baked Marble Pudding

1 C-flour
2 t-baking powder
¼ t-cinnamon
¹/₈ t-salt
½ C-sugar
1 egg
2 T-melted butter
¼ C-water
½ t-vanilla
½ square of chocolate, melted

Mix and sift the sugar, flour, salt, baking powder and cinnamon. Add the egg-yolk, water and vanilla. Beat one minute. Add the egg white stiffly beaten. Mix well. Add the butter, melted. Divide the mixture, and to half add the melted chocolate. Prepare a loaf-cake pan or a small round tin with waxed paper. Fill it with both mixtures, first placing in it a tablespoon of the plain mixture, then a tablespoon of the chocolate mixture, then the plain, until all is used, and the pudding has a marbled appearance. Bake thirty minutes in a moderate oven. Serve warm with whipped cream.

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CHAPTER CXLVI

WITH HOUSECLEANING OVER

"BROILED steak and French fried potatoes! Whew!" said Bob, strolling into Bettina's shining kitchen. "Why so festive?"

"Because I've just finished house-cleaning, Bob, and I want to celebrate. Doesn't everything look splendid?"

"Well, it looked good to me before, but now that I think of it, I believe there is an extra shine on things. What makes that nickel there look so bright and silvery?"