Six little cooks

One and a half teacups boiled rice, one half pint milk, a saltspoonful salt, one-half cup sugar, yolks of three eggs. Bake only until "set." Beat the whites of the eggs to a froth, season with lemon, return to the oven and brown. To be eaten cold. " Then here are a few others," said Aunt Jane, " that I picked out as being especially good, which I want to give you before we close." No. 202 — NORTH-SIDE CORN BREAD. One cup meal, half a cup flour, one of sour milk, one tablespoonful melted butter, one of sugar, one teaspoonful soda, two eggs. No. 203 — PASTE FOR TARTS. One and a quarter pounds butter, one and a half do. flour, a quarter of a pound of granulated sugar; rub all the butter into the flour and make into a paste with cold milk and one teaspoonful brandy.. No. 204 — SUGAR CANDY. Six cups of sugar, one of vinegar, one of water. One tablespoonful butter, put in at the last with one teaspoonful saleratus dissolved in hot water. Flavor to taste, and boil without stirring half an hour, or until it crisps in cold water. No. 205 — COFFEE CAKE. Two cups sugar, one of butter, one of molasses, one of strong-made coffee, four of flour, one teaspoonful cloves, one nutmeg, one pound of fruit, three quarters of a teaspoonful soda, one and a third do. cream tartar, one egg- No. 206 — COCONUT DROPS. One pound desiccated cocoanut, one pound fine sugar, the whites of three eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Add the sugar to the eggs, then the cocoanut, and bake on buttered paper. No. 207 — SODA BISCUIT. OOne pound flour, two ounces butter, one ounce lard, one and a half tumberfuls sweet milk, one even teaspoon- ful soda, and three of cream tartar. Sift the soda and cream tartar with the flour and mix well; rub the butter very fine through the flour, stir in the milk, then work lightly into shape on a floured board, roll about half an inch thick, cut, lay in buttered pans and bake in a quick oven. This may, for variety, be cut into strips an inch wide and as long as the pan will allow. " Now, girls," said Aunt Jane, " we must stop. It's such fascinating work to talk over these nice recipes that we are rather apt to let them steal away our time. This is the day for deciding what we shall get ready for the good-by tea-party for our three families and some other friends that mamma Yernon is going to invite in our honor. First, as to the drinks, we will have tea, coffee and chocolate. Now, what is there in the way of bread that we can give them ? * " Tea biscuit, Virginia wafers, company tea cake, Sally Lunns, breakfast puffs," said Grace, consulting her list. " I think we'll leave off those last two and have plenty of the others. Now, we may as well assign to each what she is going to make. Grace may take the biscuit and wafers, Rose some baking-powder biscuit, and Edith the tea cake. What sweet cake shall we have? " " Dover cake with fruit in," cried out two or three at once, remembering the birthday. " Then we must make it to-day, for it never ought to be eaten less than two days old. But we want something beside that rich fruit cake." " Chocolate cake," " sponge cake," " macaroons," "jelly cake," — these all at once and in a variety of voices. " That's enough; don't drive me wild. Sister told me O "