The fun of cooking

**Yes, and some kind of a hot drink, I suppose; coffee for Father and Uncle and Aunt Mary and you, and cocoa for the rest of us ; only I ^m so tired of cocoa, I don't believe I could drink a drop. ' ' **We certainly have had it pretty often for lunch lately ; I Ve noticed it myself and meant to speak to Norah about it. I think I can find something else for all of us which you will like better — something especially meant for Thanksgiving. *' '*What the Pilgrim Fathers had for their Thanksgiving dinner, I suppose,'' laughed Mildred. **I 'm sure it will be good, too, and we '11 love it. ' ' School closed the day before Thanksgiving, and that afternoon Mildred and Brownie began to be thankful, because there would be no more lessons till Monday. They put their books away, planned the funny little play they were going to have the next evening, and got together everything they would need for that ; then they said it was time to think about the supper in the library. ** We will wait till Norah has gone out and the THANKSGIVING DAY SUPPER 219 kitchen is all in order/' said Mildred. **Tlien we can get out the things we waat to carry into the other room, and put them on two trays; Jack and Cousin Fred can carry them when we are ready. Plates, and knives, and forks, and glasses, and napkins; and the platter of turkey— '^ *'And salt,'* said Brownie, ^*and bread, and butter.'' **Yes; and cranberry jelly. Then we will make the hot things and bring them in afterward. ' ' **What shall we make to-day, Mildred T' **I wonder if Norah has made the cranberry jelly for dinner yet; if she hasn't, you and I might make that now, and divide it and put part away for the supper. And we can make the dessert, or whatever Mother thinks we had better have. The salad we shall have to make to-morrow. ' ' Norah was that very minute preparing to make the crauberry jelly, but she said she was in a hurry, and the girls could make it if they would promise not to get in her way. They got the receipt from their mother, and began in a comer as far off from Norah as they could get CRANBERRY JELLY 1 quart of cranberries. Pick them over and wash them, then chop them a little. 1% cups of cold water. 2 cups of sugar. Boil five minutes; rub while hot through a sieve, and pour into a pretty mold. This rule, of course, had to be doubled for two molds. They found it was not very easy to get the cranberries through the sieve; by talking turns, however, they were slowly squeezing them through when Norah came to their aid and gave them the wooden potato-masher to use instead of the spoon they were working with. The molds were set away to get hard, and then they asked their mother for something else to do. **I Ve been thinking,'* she said, **that we ought to have for supper something the men would like very much ; they will have had turkey once already, and perhaps they will be tired of it. Would you like scalloped oysters I ' * *' Mother, we 'd perfectly love theml'' exclaimed Mildred. **But do you think we could make them? I always thought they were very hard to make.*' **My dear, they are the easiest thing in the world. To save time, you may copy the rule r' THANKSGIVING DAY SUPPER 221 now, and then to-morrow, when everybody is here, I will not have to stop visiting and explain SCALLOPED OYSTERS 1 quart of oysters. 2 packages of crackers, or as many loose ones — about half a pound. Boll fine. Salt, pepper, and butter. 1 small cup of milk.