Cut the stem ends from the peppers, and remove all seeds; add one-eighth of a teaspoonful of soda to each pepper, fill with water and allow to stand one-half hour. Mix one cup of white sauce with the rice, onions, chopped pepper and paprika. Fill the pepper cases and bake thirty minutes in a moderate oven.
Hot Fudge Cake
1/3 C-butter
1 C-sugar
2 egg yolks
2 squares (or ounces) of chocolate, melted
½ C-molasses
½ C-sour milk
½ C-hot water
2 C-flour
1 t-cinnamon
1 t-soda
1 t-baking powder
¼ t-salt
1 t-vanilla
2 egg whites
Cream the butter, add the sugar and continue creaming. Add the egg yolks, melted chocolate, molasses, sour milk, hot water, flour, cinnamon, soda, baking powder, salt and vanilla. Beat two minutes, and add the stiffly beaten egg whites. Fill well-buttered muffin pans one-half full, and bake in a moderate oven for twenty-five minutes. Serve hot as a dessert, with whipped cream.
CHAPTER XX
MRS. DIXON AND BETTINA'S EXPERIMENT
"I'M so happy!" said Mrs. Dixon, as she stopped at Bettina's door one cool morning. "But I'm nervous, too! What if Frank shouldn't like it?"