, you get the
milk and eggs."

BAKED CUSTARDS

1 quart of milk.
Yolks of four eggs.
4 teaspoonfuls of sugar.
1/2 teaspoonful of vanilla.
1 pinch of salt.
1/2 teaspoonful of grated nutmeg.

Put the sugar in the milk; beat the eggs light, and add those,
with salt and vanilla. Pour into the cups, sprinkle with nutmeg,
and arrange the cups in a shallow pan. Bake half an hour, or till,
when you put the blade of a knife in one, it comes out clean.

It took just a few moments to make these, and then came the next rule:

CURRANT CAKES

1/2 cup of butter.
1 cup of sugar.
1 cup of milk.
1 egg.
2 cups of flour.
2 rounded teaspoonfuls of baking-powder.
1/2 cup of currants.
1 teaspoonful of vanilla.

Wash the currants and rub them dry in a towel. Put the flour in a
bowl; take out a large tablespoonful and mix with the currants,
and then mix the baking-powder with the rest of it. Rub the butter
to a cream, add the sugar, then the milk, then the egg, beaten
without separating, then the flour mixed with the baking-powder,
then the flavoring, and, last, the currants. Grease some small
tins, fill them half full, and bake in an oven not too hot.

"You must always mix some flour with raisins or currants to keep them
from sinking to the bottom of the cake; but do not add any to the
rule--just take a little out from what you are going to use in the cake.
Now, Jack, please get me two cans of salmon from the pantry and open
them; and we will need butter and milk from the refrigerator, too. It's
fine to have a 'handy man' around to help us cook! Now, Mildred, double
this rule, because there will be so many at supper."

SCALLOPED SALMON

1 good-sized can of salmon, or one pint of any cooked fish.
1 cup of white sauce.
1 cup of cracker crumbs.

Butter a baking dish, put in a layer of fish, then one of crumbs;
sprinkle with a little salt and pepper, and dot the crumbs with
butter; then put on a layer of white sauce. Repeat till the dish
is full, with the crumbs on top; dot with butter and brown well in
the oven; it will take about twenty minutes.

[Illustration: Brownie rolled the crackers]

Brownie rolled the crackers for this, while Mildred made the white sauce
by the rule she said was so easy it was exactly like learning a b c.

"That is so queer," laughed her mother, "because cooks ca