" We must get out the scales for your < creamy sauce,* and you can learn how to weigh things. We will take AUNT JANE'S COOKING GLASS. 35 the sugar first, because that will not soil anything. And that reminds me of a suggestion I saw in an excellent receipt-book lately, that there should be paper bags ready to slip sugar and flour and such dry things into after they were weighed and measured, so as to save using so many dishes. I thought it would be a good plan to try it." " Shall we make some bags, aunty?" "No, I think we need not do that if Rhoda will save us some of those that are sent from the grocers. They are usually only burnt up. Now take a good large bowl for beating your pudding-sauce in, so that you won't be afraid of spattering anything. You must stir the butter to a cream first with the smallest-sized wooden spoon, then add the sugar, little by little, and afterward the cream, beating them all the while until they are as light as possible. The lemon goes in last. Some people put a little wine, but I think we'll do without that. Now we will just take off the cover of the tea-kettle and set the bowl into it. After a while it will all be melted to- gether into a thick, creamy froth, and then it may be taken off, but it must not be allowed to get cool until it is served. You must ask Rhoda to keep it in a warm place, and then just heat it up the last thing before she 36 BIX LITTLE COOKS. sends in the pudding, but not boil it. Pudding sauces should never boil." " Do just see how Mabel has spelt ' recipe ' on the cover of her book!" said Grace, who had just come in and was spying around. "Ressipy-book!" "That's a very natural mistake," said Aunt Jane kindly, " and it isn't quite polite in you to laugh at her. She spells it as it sounds. When I was a little girl nobody said anything but receipt-books; now that ' recipe ' seems to be the fashion, I have adopted it, but I find myself quite as often speaking of ' receipts,' and I think there is something to be said in its favor. How- ever, the main point is to find out whether the dishes made after our recipes are good. Mabel has plenty of time yet to learn how to spell them." When the pudding came on the table, attended by its foaming sauce, there was a general murmur of approba- tion ; but after everybody had been helped, and had eaten the first spoonful, the murmur changed to many-voiced applause. "Really remarkably good," said papa; "you don't mean to say that my little Mabel actually made this sauce? Mabel, I see you are destined to be the support AUNT JANE'S COOKING CLASS. 37 of your father's gray hairs. What shall we do to reward these industrious cooks?" " I know what I wish you would do," said Grace; " but I'm afraid you won't." "No harm in telling what it is," said her mother. " Perhaps we will." " Let us make some candy this afternoon, and ask all the other girls to come in," said Grace, boldly, looking out of the corners of both eyes at once, to see the effect of her proposition. " I think you might better ask Aunt Jane first if she chooses to spend the afternoon as well as the morning in your instruction." " Aunt Jane would like the fun as well as any body," observed that obliging relative.

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" We must get out the scales for your creamy sauce, and you can learn how to weigh things. We will take the sugar first, because that will not soil anything. And that reminds me of a suggestion I saw in an excellent receipt-book lately, that there should be paper bags ready to slip sugar and flour and such dry things into after they were weighed and measured, so as to save using so many dishes. I thought it would be a good plan to try it." " Shall we make some bags, aunty?" "No, I think we need not do that if Rhoda will save us some of those that are sent from the grocers. They are usually only burnt up. Now take a good large bowl for beating your pudding-sauce in, so that you won't be afraid of spattering anything. You must stir the butter to a cream first with the smallest-sized wooden spoon, then add the sugar, little by little, and afterward the cream, beating them all the while until they are as light as possible. The lemon goes in last. Some people put a little wine, but I think we'll do without that. Now we will just take off the cover of the tea-kettle and set the bowl into it. After a while it will all be melted together into a thick, creamy froth, and then it may be taken off, but it must not be allowed to get cool until it is served. You must ask Rhoda to keep it in a warm place, and then just heat it up the last thing before she sends in the pudding, but not boil it. Pudding sauces should never boil." " Do just see how Mabel has spelt ' recipe ' on the cover of her book!" said Grace, who had just come in and was spying around. "Ressipy-book!" "That's a very natural mistake," said Aunt Jane kindly, " and it isn't quite polite in you to laugh at her. She spells it as it sounds. When I was a little girl nobody said anything but receipt-books; now that ' recipe ' seems to be the fashion, I have adopted it, but I find myself quite as often speaking of ' receipts,' and I think there is something to be said in its favor. However, the main point is to find out whether the dishes made after our recipes are good. Mabel has plenty of time yet to learn how to spell them." When the pudding came on the table, attended by its foaming sauce, there was a general murmur of approbation ; but after everybody had been helped, and had eaten the first spoonful, the murmur changed to many-voiced applause. "Really remarkably good," said papa; "you don't mean to say that my little Mabel actually made this sauce? Mabel, I see you are destined to be the support of your father's gray hairs. What shall we do to reward these industrious cooks?" " I know what I wish you would do," said Grace; " but I'm afraid you won't." "No harm in telling what it is," said her mother. " Perhaps we will." " Let us make some candy this afternoon, and ask all the other girls to come in," said Grace, boldly, looking out of the corners of both eyes at once, to see the effect of her proposition. " I think you might better ask Aunt Jane first if she chooses to spend the afternoon as well as the morning in your instruction." " Aunt Jane would like the fun as well as any body," observed that obliging relative.

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