st very thin, and
press it into little scalloped tins; prick holes in the bottom to
let the air in. Cut off the edges smoothly, and bake till light
brown. Just before you need them fill the shells with jelly.

The very moment when the tarts disappeared in the pantry, Jack came up
with his pans of pop-corn.

"Real cooking is just for girls," he said, with his mouth full of a
stolen macaroon. "It's all right for boys to make pop-corn balls,
though. Only how do you do it?" His mother told him to wash his hands
well, and then gave him this rule:

POP-CORN BALLS

1 cup of molasses.
1/2 cup of sugar.
2 teaspoonfuls of vinegar.
1/2 teaspoonful of soda.
2 teaspoonfuls of butter.

Boil fifteen minutes, stirring all the time. Pour a little over a
pan of corn, and take up in your hands all that sticks together,
and roll it into a ball. Keep the candy hot on the back of the
stove, and pour on more till it is all done.

This made a great dishful of lovely balls, and they set them away in a
cold place; and then Norah told them they must run out of the kitchen,
because she wanted to get luncheon ready.

After lunch, Jack had to go and shovel out paths again, because those he
had made had all disappeared. Mildred and Brownie dressed a tiny doll
for a cousin they were afraid might not have quite as many as she would
want, and when that was done, they said they wanted to cook some more.

Their mother told them she had one very, very nice receipt meant
especially for holidays, which, strangely enough, had Brownie's name.
"Because you are so very, very nice yourself," she said with a hug,
"perhaps you can make these all by yourself, too."

BROWNIES

3 squares of chocolate.
2 eggs, beaten together.
1/2 cup of flour.
2 cups of sugar.
1/4 cup of butter.
1 cup of chopped English walnuts.

Cream the butter and sugar together, and add the eggs, well beaten
without separating; then add the flour. Melt the chocolate by
cutting it up into small bits and putting it in a little dish over
the steam of the tea-kettle. Put this in next, and, last, the
nuts. Lay a greased paper on the bottom of a shallow pan, and pour
the cake in, in a thin layer. Bake twenty-five minutes; mark off
into squares while warm, and cut before removing from the pan.
These should be as thick as cookies when done.

"Don't you want me to help you mak