good. Here is the recipe: Three table-spoonfuls of
molasses, two of sugar, two of water, one of butter; add a pinch
of soda before pouring out to cool.

KITTIE G.

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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Here is a recipe for apple-cake for Puss Hunter. Take one pint
bowl of apples, pare, core, and chop them; then add three cups of
cold water, one cup of sugar, one table-spoonful of butter. Bake
about twenty minutes in a quick oven.

L. GRACE P.

Is this mixture intended as a filling for pie-crust, or as apple jam? In
writing out recipes, our young housekeepers must be very careful to omit
nothing, and to explain all details, as a slight error may ruin a
delicious dish.

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HARTFORD, OHIO.

I like HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE so much that I wish it would come
every day.

Here is a recipe for Puss Hunter. I call it maple candy. One and a
half cups of maple syrup, and one-fourth of a cup of vinegar. When
I think it is done, I pour it into a buttered dish to cool. Then I
pull it till it becomes white. I tried R. C. W.'s recipe for
candy, and I think it is very nice. I would like to be a member of
the cooking club.

We have two pet bird dogs, two robins, and a canary, and I have
about seventy-five little chickens.

MAUD K.

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SEDALIA, MISSOURI.

I have taken YOUNG PEOPLE from the first number, and I like it
very much.

I have a mocking-bird that is only five weeks old, and I have to
feed it.

Here is a recipe for ginger cookies for the cooking club: One cup
of lard; one cup New Orleans molasses; one cup New Orleans sugar;
two eggs; two-thirds of a cup of boiling-hot water poured over a
heaping tea-spoonful of soda, and a little salt. Ginger to taste.

ABBIE R.

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PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

My sister and I tried Fanny S.'s recipe for caramels. The candy
was very nice. Here is a recipe for Shrewsbury cake for the
cooking club: One cup of butter; three cups of sugar; one and
one-half pints of flour; three eggs; one tea-spoonful of royal
baking powder; one cup of milk; one tea-spoonful of royal extract
of rose. Rub the butter and sugar to a smooth white cream; add the
eggs one at a time, beating