ll it just
that--the a b c of cooking! It is the rule you use more often than any
other."

WHITE SAUCE

1 rounded tablespoonful of butter.
1 rounded tablespoonful of flour.
1 cup of milk.
1/2 teaspoonful of salt.
2 shakes of pepper.

Melt the butter; when it bubbles, put in the flour, stirring it
well; when this is smooth, slowly add the milk, salt, and pepper;
stir and cook till very smooth; you can make it like thin cream by
cooking only one minute, or like thick cream by cooking it two
minutes.

"Sometimes you want it thicker than others," said her mother, "so I just
put that in to explain. To-day make it like thin cream. Now, Mildred,
you can put it all together while Jack brings in the cold boiled
potatoes and Brownie cuts them up."

CREAMED POTATOES

Cut eight large boiled potatoes into bits the size of the end of
your thumb. Put them in a saucepan and cover them with milk; stand
them on the back of the stove where they will cook slowly; watch
them so they will not burn. In another saucepan make white sauce
as before. When the potatoes have drunk up all the milk and are
rather dry, drop them in the sauce; do not stir them; sprinkle
with pepper.

"Now for the muffins, for it is after five o'clock. Brownie, you find
the muffin pans and make them very hot. Do you know how to grease them?"

"Yes, indeed!" said Brownie, proudly. "This is the way." She got a clean
bit of paper, warmed the pans, and dropped a bit of butter in each, and
then with the paper rubbed it all around.

MUFFINS

2 cups of flour.
1 cup of milk.
1 rounded tablespoonful of butter.
2 eggs, beaten separately.
1 teaspoonful of baking-powder.
1/2 teaspoonful of salt.
1 teaspoonful of sugar.

Beat the egg yolks first; then add the milk; melt the butter and
put that in, then the flour, well mixed with the baking-powder,
then the salt and sugar. Last, add the stiff whites of the eggs.
Fill the pans half full.

"Some things, like cake, cannot bear to have the oven door opened while
they are baking," said Mother Blair; "but salmon does not mind if you
open quickly; so, Mildred, put these in as fast as you can; they will
take about twenty minutes to bake. I do believe that is all we have to
make except the tea, and that takes only a moment when everything else
is ready. I will give you the receipt for it now, and a