FURS TO PUT AWAY
"A PENNY for your thoughts!"
Bettina started in surprise. "Why, Ruth, I didn't see you coming up the
walk!"
"I knew you didn't. But what on earth are you doing out here on your
front steps? Enjoying the weather?"
"Indeed I am! Isn't it a wonderful spring day? But my thoughts weren't
very poetic, I must admit. I was just wondering if it was too early to
put away my furs for the summer. I'm always tempted to do that when the
first signs of spring appear, and then I'm generally sorry a few days
later."
"I'll have to put mine away soon, too. Do tell me, Bettina, just how you
go about it."
"Well, I always hang mine in the sun for a while, then I beat them well,
comb them out with a steel comb, and wrap them up."
"With moth-balls?"
"That is a good way, but not at all necessary. I always wrap mine in a
newspaper--a good tight package. Moths don't like printer's ink, you
know, and furs so wrapped are perfectly safe."
"Then, Bettina, you don't need to add that you label the package, for I
know that you do, you thoroughly thorough housekeeper!"
Bettina laughed. "Well, Ruth, I do label it. Labelled packages are so
much better to have, for very often you need to get something out in a
hurry."
For dinner that night Bettina served:
Broiled Steak Lyonnaise Potatoes
Bean Salad
Bread Butter
Date Rocks Coffee
BETTINA'S RECIPES
(All measurements are level)
=Lyonnaise Potatoes= (Two portions)
2 T-onion
2 T-butter
1/4 t-paprika
1/2 t-salt
1 C-cold boiled potatoes, cut in 1/2-inch cubes
1 t-chopped parsley
Place one tablespoon of butter in a frying-pan and when hot add the
onion. Let the onion cook until it is brown. Add the salt and parsley,
the rest of the butter, the potatoes and the paprika. Stir well. Cook
until the potatoes are well browned.
=Bean Salad= (Two portions)
1 C-kidney beans
1/2 C-celery, cut fine
2 T-nut meats
1 t-salt
3 T-chopped pickle
1/3 C-salad dressing
2 pieces of lettuce
Mix the beans, celery, nut meats, green pepper, pickles and salt. Add
the salad dressing. Serve very cold on lettuce leaves.
=Date Rocks=
1 C-sugar
1/2 C-lard and butter mixed
1-1/2 C-flour
1/2 t-baking powder
2 eggs
1 t-cinnamon
1/2 t-powdered cloves
1/2 t-vanilla
1/2 C-dates, cut fine
1/2 C-nut meats, cut fine
1/8 t-salt
Cream the butter and lard, add the sugar, and mix well. Add the two eggs
well beaten. Mix and sift thoroughly the flour, baking powder, salt,
cloves and cinnamon. Add the dates and nuts. Stir these dry ingredients
into the first mixture. Add the vanilla. Mix thoroughly and drop from
the end of the spoon upon a well larded and floured baking pan. Bake
fifteen minutes in a moderate oven.