A GUEST TO A DINNER OF LEFT-OVERS
"AHA, I've found you out!" Bettina heard a laughing voice shout as she
hurried up the steps.
"Why, Jack, when did you come to town?"
"This afternoon. Went to Bob's office the very first thing, and he
insisted on bringing me home with him to dinner. I told him it might
'put you out,' but he spent the time it took to come home assuring me
that you were always waiting for company--kept a light ever burning in
the window for them and all that. He said that I'd see,--that you'd be
on the doorstep waiting for us!"
"And after all that--you weren't here!" said Bob reproachfully.
"I'm just as sorry as I can be not to live up to Bob's picture of me,"
said Bettina. "I generally am waiting for Bob,--almost on the doorstep
if not quite. But this afternoon I've been to a shower for Alice,--do
you remember Alice, Jack?"
"Very well. The gay dark-eyed one. You don't mean to say that she's
found a man who's lively enough to suit her?"
"Well, she seems to be suited, all right. But I must fly into an apron
if you boys are to get any dinner within a half-hour. Jack, you'll have
to pardon me if after all of Bob's eloquence I give you a meal of
left-overs----"
"Don't apologize to a bachelor, Bettina. He probably won't know
left-overs from the real thing," said Bob.
"Bachelors are said to be the most critical of all," she answered. "But
I'll do my little best to please."
That night Bettina served:
Roast Beef Pie
Bread Butter
Sliced Tomatoes with Salad Dressing
Marble Cake Coffee
BETTINA'S RECIPES
(All measurements are level)
=Roast Beef Pie= (Three portions)
2 C-chopped cold roast beef
1 C-gravy
1 C-cold diced potatoes (cooked)
2 T-chopped onion
1 C-flour
2 t-baking powder
2 t-lard
1/8 t-salt
6 T-milk
Mix the beef, gravy, potato and onion. Place in a shallow buttered
baking dish. Make a biscuit dough by cutting the lard into the flour,
which has been sifted with the baking powder, and salt, and gradually
adding the milk. Pat the dough into shape and arrange carefully on top
of the meat. Make holes in the top to allow the steam to escape. Bake in
a moderate oven twenty minutes.
=Marble Cake= (Fourteen slices)
1 C-sugar
1/2 C-butter
Cream together and divide into two parts, half for light and half for
dark.
=Dark Part=
To one half add:
1/4 C-molasses
1/2 C-milk
2 egg-yolks
1 C-flour
1 t-baking powder
1 t-powdered cinnamon
1/2 t-powdered cloves
1/4 t-grated nutmeg
1/2 t-vanilla
Mix this together thoroughly and set aside while the light part is being
mixed.
=Light Part=
To the other half of the butter and sugar add:
1/2 C-milk
1 C-flour
1 t-baking powder
1/2 t-vanilla
Whites of two eggs beaten stiff
Put large spoonfuls of light and dark batter, alternating, in a loaf
cake pan well fitted with waxed paper, until the pan is two-thirds full.
Bake thirty-five minutes in a moderate oven.