"Of course I will!"

And as Mrs. Dixon hurried away Bettina felt a sympathetic thrill at the happiness two other people were about to find.

BETTINA'S RECIPES

(All measurements are level)

Spanish Buns (Twelve Buns)

½ C-butter
1 C-sugar
1 egg-yolk
½ C-milk
C-flour
3 t-baking powder
1 t-cinnamon
¼ t-powdered cloves
1 egg-white beaten stiffly
1 t-vanilla
½ C-currants

Cream the butter and sugar, add the egg yolk. Mix and sift the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and cloves; add these and the milk to the first mixture. Beat one minute. Add the vanilla and the stiffly beaten egg white. Bake in well buttered muffin pans twenty minutes in a moderate oven. Ice with confectioner's icing.

Confectioner's Icing (Twelve portions)

3 T-cream
1 t-vanilla
1 C-powdered sugar