ing gently until sugar is dissolved. Boil slowly without
stirring for five minutes. Add chocolate square and stir until
melted. Boil again until a little of mixture dropped in cold
water seems brittle. Take from range, add vanilla, beat until it
begins to thicken, then pour into a buttered pan. Cool and mark
into squares.

CHOCOLATE CAKE

MATERIAL:

1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
1 scant cup Pillsbury's Best
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 square melted chocolate
1/4 teaspoon vanilla

WAY OF PREPARING:

Stir butter, egg and sugar until creamy. Add milk little at a
time, stirring in gradually flour, sifted with baking powder. Now
stir in melted chocolate, add vanilla and beat hard. Bake twenty
minutes in a greased shallow pan.

[Illustration:

"This world is so full of a number of things,
I am sure we should all be as happy as kings."
]

JOHNNY CAKE

MATERIAL:

3/4 cup corn meal
3/4 cup Pillsbury's Best
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
1 egg
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon melted butter

WAY OF PREPARING:

Sift cornmeal, flour, baking powder, sugar and salt together. Add
milk gradually, well beaten egg and melted butter. Grease shallow
pan, heat slightly, pour in mixture and bake twenty minutes in
hot oven.

LITTLE TALKS WITH LITTLE COOKS

The table around which the household gathers three times a day
furnishes the chief opportunity for showing the results of good
training, whether received in school or home. We show our
unselfishness in preferring one another, anticipating one
another's wants.

On the table is shown the result of the unselfish thought and
care of the chief home-maker. The labor connected with the
preparation of the meal is either a burden or a pleasure as one's
previous training has made possible.

We get the best training for active life, in other than household
work, early in life, at school and home. Why not learn to be good
home-makers while still young?

We like to do what we do well. If we learn early, we learn easily
and well--the work is a pleasure and success is assured.

Beginners should master the little recipes included in this book.
They require only a small amount of material, but enough for
success.

[Illustration]

This is the tale that was told to me
By a loaf of home-made bread, you see,
As it sat one night on the pantry shelf--
A loaf on each