_Fudge_

2 c. sugar
1 c. milk
1 tbsp. butter
1/2 c. nuts, broken up

Put the sugar and the milk in a sauce-pan and stir over the heat until
the sugar is dissolved. Add the butter and boil to the "soft ball"
stage. Take from the heat and beat until creamy. Add the nuts and pour
on buttered pans. When cool, cut in squares. Serves sixteen to eighteen.

METHOD OF WORK

Devote, if possible, a separate period to the discussion of the food
value and cooking of sugar; then assign two recipes for the practical
work, allowing the pupils to work in groups. Assign only as much work as
can be carefully supervised. Do not undertake both the cookies and the
candy.

TWENTY LESSONS IN SEWING

SUGGESTIONS TO THE TEACHER

The teacher should be familiar with the conditions in which the pupils
live, should know how much money they can afford to pay for materials,
what materials are available, what previous experience in hand work they
have had, whether they can afford to have sewing-machines in their own
homes, and to what extent they make their own clothes or buy them
ready-made.

The lessons should be planned to furnish hand training, to give pupils
practical instruction in the care of their own clothes, and to provide
an opportunity for preparing the apron for the cooking lessons. The
lesson course should tend to develop habits of thrift, industry, and
neatness. The pupils should be encouraged to learn to sew, both to
improve their own home conditions and to give them suggestions as to a
possible means of livelihood. If sewing-machines are available and are
in use in the homes, it is well to have lessons given in machine sewing
and to have the long seams run by machine. If the pupils cannot have
sewing-machines in their own homes, the lessons given should be limited
to sewing by hand. In some schools, it may be necessary to simplify the
lessons; in others, an increased number of articles may be prepared in
the time allotted. Should the apron and cap not be needed for the
cooking class, an undergarment (corset cover) may well be
substituted.[A]

[A] Should the teacher feel that an apron or corset-cover
is too large a piece for her pupils to undertake, and
should she desire to have more time spent on the first ten
lessons. Lessons XI to XVIII may be omitted, two periods
each devoted to both Lessons XIX and XX, and three lessons
used for the making of a simple needle-book or othe