is a receipt
for you; do you think you can manage it all alone?"

"Of course," said Brownie, with great dignity. "Only you might just tell
me how, first."

Mother Blair laughed, and read the receipt over to her, and told her
what to do.

STUFFED BAKED POTATOES

Take six large potatoes, wash and scrub them well, and bake them
for about forty minutes in a hot oven, or till they are done. Take
one potato at a time, hold it in a towel, and cut it in two,
lengthwise. Scoop out the inside with a spoon into a hot bowl.
When all six are ready, add 1/2 teaspoonful of salt and 1
teaspoonful of butter, beating and mashing well till they are
light; then fill the potato shells, heaping them full; arrange in
a shallow pan, and set it in the oven; bake about ten minutes, or
till they are brown.

As soon as Brownie was busy with the potatoes, Mildred said she would
make the cocoa, because that could stand and wait while other things
cooked. Her mother told her to get the double boiler, put some hot
water in the outside, and set it on the stove. Then she gave her this
receipt:

COCOA

6 teaspoonfuls of cocoa.
1-1/2 cups of boiling water.
1-1/2 cups of boiling milk.
1 tablespoonful of powdered sugar.
1 small pinch of salt.

_Always measure spoonfuls just a little rounded._ Put the powdered
cocoa into the double boiler and pour on it the boiling water, a
little at first, stirring it until it melts; add the boiling milk,
and cook two minutes, stirring all the time; add the sugar, stir a
moment longer; add the salt and take from the fire. If not to be
used at once, stand the double boiler on the back of the stove
till wanted.

"But, Mother, we will need a great many more cups of cocoa than this,"
Mildred exclaimed, as she read the rule over. "Those boys will drink at
least two apiece, and the girls may, too; they will all be just
starving!"

"Of course," said Mother Blair. "But what do you go to school for, if
not to learn multiplication? How many times over must you make the
rule?"

Mildred thought two whole minutes, and then said she thought about five
times would do; so she very carefully measured everything five times
over. "I never thought arithmetic was any good before," she said
soberly. "But now I see it is to cook by."

"Yes, I find it useful myself," her mother said, with a smile. "Now,
Mildred, we might make