M IjUL^JL la A LITTLE COOK BOOK FOR A LITTLE GIRL J LITTLE COOK BOOK FOR A LITTLE GIRL B T THE AUTHOR OF "GALA DAT LUNCHEONS1 ~M\ BOSTON J. DANA ESTES & COMPANY^PUBLISHERS Copyright, igoj By Dana Estes & Company All rigfits reserved ... A LITTLE COOK BOOK FOR A LITTLE GIRL COLONIAL PRESS Electrotyped and Printed by C. H . Simonds &• Co. Boston, Mass., U.S. A. FOR J&atl)artne, iHontca anB 33cttp THREE LITTLE GIRLS WHO LOVE TO DO "LITTLE GIRL cooking" Thanks are due to the editor of Good House- keeping for permission to reproduce the greater part of this book from that magazine. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2013 http://archive.org/details/littlecookbookfoOObent CONTENTS PABT PAGE I. The Things Margaret Made for Breakfast 11 II. The Things She Made for Luncheon or Supper ...... 53 III. The Things She Made for Dinner . 91 INTRODUCTION Once upon a time there was a little girl named Margaret, and she wanted to cook, so she went into the kitchen and tried and tried, but she could not understand the cook-books, and she made dreadful messes, and spoiled her frocks and burned her fingers till she just had to cry. One day she went to her grandmother and her mother and her Pretty Aunt and her Other Aunt, who were all sitting sewing, and asked them to tell her about cooking. " What is a roux," she said, " and what's a mousse and what's an entree? What are tim- bales and sautes and ingredients, and how do you mix 'em and how long do you bake 'em? Won't somebody please tell me all about it? " And her Pretty Aunt said, " See the flour all over that new frock ! " and her mother said, " Dear child, you are not old enough to cook yet ; " and her grandmother said, " Just wait vi INTRODUCTION a year or two, and I'll teach you myself ; " and her Other Aunt said, " Some day you shall go to cooking-school and learn everything; you know little girls can't cook." But Margaret said, " I don't want to wait till I'm big ; I want to cook now ; and I don't want to do cooking-school cooking, but little girl cooking, all by myself." So she kept on trying to learn, but she burned her fingers and spoiled her dresses worse than ever, and her messes were so bad they had to be thrown out, every one of them ; and she cried and cried. And then one day her grand- mother said, " It's a shame that child should not leam to cook if she really wants to so much ; " and her mother said, " Yes, it is a shame, and she shall learn ! Let's get her a small table and some tins and aprons, and make a little cook-book all her own out of the old ones we wrote for ourselves long ago, — just the plain, easy things anybody can make." And both her aunts said, " Do ! We will help, and per- haps we might put in just a few cooking-school things beside." It was not long after this that Margaret had a birthday, and she was taken to the kitchen to get her presents, which she thought the fun- INTRODUCTION vii

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LITTLE COOK BOOK FOR A LITTLE GIRL BY THE AUTHOR OF "GALA DAY LUNCHEONS" BOSTON: J. DANA ESTES & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1905 By Dana Estes & Company All rights reserved ... COLONIAL PRESS Electrotyped and Printed by C. H . Simonds &• Co. Boston, Mass., U.S. A. FOR Katharine, Monica and Betty THREE LITTLE GIRLS WHO LOVE TO DO "LITTLE GIRL cooking" Thanks are due to the editor of Good Housekeeping for permission to reproduce the greater part of this book from that magazine. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2013 http://archive.org/details/littlecookbookfoOObent CONTENTS PABT PAGE I. The Things Margaret Made for Breakfast 11 II. The Things She Made for Luncheon or Supper ...... 53 III. The Things She Made for Dinner . 91 INTRODUCTION Once upon a time there was a little girl named Margaret, and she wanted to cook, so she went into the kitchen and tried and tried, but she could not understand the cook-books, and she made dreadful messes, and spoiled her frocks and burned her fingers till she just had to cry. One day she went to her grandmother and her mother and her Pretty Aunt and her Other Aunt, who were all sitting sewing, and asked them to tell her about cooking. " What is a roux," she said, " and what's a mousse and what's an entree? What are timbales and sautes and ingredients, and how do you mix 'em and how long do you bake 'em? Won't somebody please tell me all about it? " And her Pretty Aunt said, " See the flour all over that new frock ! " and her mother said, " Dear child, you are not old enough to cook yet ; " and her grandmother said, " Just wait vi INTRODUCTION a year or two, and I'll teach you myself ; " and her Other Aunt said, " Some day you shall go to cooking-school and learn everything; you know little girls can't cook." But Margaret said, " I don't want to wait till I'm big ; I want to cook now ; and I don't want to do cooking-school cooking, but little girl cooking, all by myself." So she kept on trying to learn, but she burned her fingers and spoiled her dresses worse than ever, and her messes were so bad they had to be thrown out, every one of them ; and she cried and cried. And then one day her grandmother said, " It's a shame that child should not leam to cook if she really wants to so much ; " and her mother said, " Yes, it is a shame, and she shall learn ! Let's get her a small table and some tins and aprons, and make a little cook-book all her own out of the old ones we wrote for ourselves long ago, — just the plain, easy things anybody can make." And both her aunts said, " Do ! We will help, and perhaps we might put in just a few cooking-school things beside." It was not long after this that Margaret had a birthday, and she was taken to the kitchen to get her presents, which she thought the fun- INTRODUCTION vii

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