Below this drawer is a cupboard.
Catch the handle and pull up the
door. On the top shelf is a tin
cup; take it out and place on the
table.
Under it is an agate pan like
your teakettle. Take it out, and
always use it for carrying food
around in. Do you think that you
will never forget it when you' go
to the table to get butter or eggs
or milk?
Just before you go home you
must put these utensils back and
shut the door.
Look for the measuring cup
which rests in a pan on the top
shelf.
Now I would like to have, you
come and sit around this table.
Bring the stool which you find un-
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Light the gas for toast.
der your table. We are going to do
a little cooking, make toast and
tea, so that you may make them
sometimes for Sunday night sup-
per, or for mother's luncheon when
she is busy, or when she has come
home tired from shopping. Little
girls may be precious little helpers
in the home. At eleven o'clock in
the morning or four or five in the
afternoon mother sometimes finds
a cup of tea very refreshing.
Toast is made from bread. There
are good breads and bad breads
and we must learn to know good
breads, and not buy any other
kind. I want you to smell these
pieces and tell me how they smell
to you. You know God gave us
this sense of smell to protect us
from things that might hurt us, as
well as to give us pleasures in
sweet odors.
Bread which smells sour or
mouldy is not good. It should
smell sweet, but not like sugar,
and should not be too white, and
should taste something like nuts
when you chew it a long time.
Bread is the very best food in
the world when it is really good
bread.
What is toast made from?
How old do you think bread
should be to make the best toast?
How do you know what kind of
bread to buy? Do you know what
a sour smell is like? Do you know
the smell of vinegar?
It is cheap, too.
We will cut this slice on this
board and make the slices about a
third of an inch thick, like this,
smooth and even all the way across.
This bread was baked yesterday.
Stale bread makes better toast be-
cause it is more dry. Hold the left
hand firm, and run the knife like
a saw right down through the loaf.
Susie, cut your slice and put it
into your pan. We will see what
will happen in the oven to these
pieces with thi nspots. Now that
all of you have your slices cut we
will go to the stove and light the
fire and toast this bread.
Notice the space between the
shelf and the fire. Notice where
your piece is lying on the pan.
Now look at the clock to see how
long it takes to make toast. It de-
pends on how hot the fire is and
how dry the bread is. Eemember
dr3^ bread is best.
How much does bread cost a
loaf? How much does a loaf of
bread weigh? Place the scales be-
fore the class and weigh a loaf,
letting them read the scale.
Why is the board placed on the
table to cut the bread on? Class
observes and criticizes mentally
each girl as she cuts her slice.
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Below this drawer is a cupboard. Catch the handle and pull up the door. On the top shelf is a tin cup; take it out and place on the table.
Under it is an agate pan like your teakettle. Take it out, and always use it for carrying food around in. Do you think that you will never forget it when you' go to the table to get butter or eggs or milk?
Just before you go home you must put these utensils back and shut the door.
Look for the measuring cup which rests in a pan on the top shelf.
Now I would like to have, you come and sit around this table. Bring the stool which you find un-
Light the gas for toast.
der your table. We are going to do a little cooking, make toast and tea, so that you may make them sometimes for Sunday night supper, or for mother's luncheon when she is busy, or when she has come home tired from shopping. Little girls may be precious little helpers in the home. At eleven o'clock in the morning or four or five in the afternoon mother sometimes finds a cup of tea very refreshing.
Toast is made from bread. There are good breads and bad breads and we must learn to know good breads, and not buy any other kind. I want you to smell these pieces and tell me how they smell to you. You know God gave us this sense of smell to protect us from things that might hurt us, as well as to give us pleasures in sweet odors.
Bread which smells sour or mouldy is not good. It should smell sweet, but not like sugar, and should not be too white, and should taste something like nuts when you chew it a long time.
Bread is the very best food in the world when it is really good bread.
What is toast made from?
How old do you think bread should be to make the best toast? How do you know what kind of bread to buy? Do you know what a sour smell is like? Do you know the smell of vinegar?
It is cheap, too.
We will cut this slice on this board and make the slices about a third of an inch thick, like this, smooth and even all the way across.
This bread was baked yesterday. Stale bread makes better toast because it is more dry. Hold the left hand firm, and run the knife like a saw right down through the loaf. Susie, cut your slice and put it into your pan. We will see what will happen in the oven to these pieces with thi nspots. Now that all of you have your slices cut we will go to the stove and light the fire and toast this bread.
Notice the space between the shelf and the fire. Notice where your piece is lying on the pan. Now look at the clock to see how long it takes to make toast. It depends on how hot the fire is and how dry the bread is. Remember dry bread is best.
How much does bread cost a loaf? How much does a loaf of bread weigh? Place the scales before the class and weigh a loaf, letting them read the scale.
Why is the board placed on the table to cut the bread on? Class observes and criticizes mentally each girl as she cuts her slice.