Egg Recipe

And her Pretty Aunt said, ``See the flour all over that new frock!'' and her mother said, ``Dear child, you are not old enough to cooks yet;'' and her grandmother said, ``Just wait a year or two, and I'll teach you myself;'' and the Other Aunt said, ``Some day you shall go to cooking&# 226;ÂÂschool and learn everything; you know little But Margaret said, ``I don't want to wait till I'm big; I want to

cook now; and I don't want to do cookingâÂÂschool cooking, but little girl cooking, all by myself.'' So she kept on trying to learn, but she burned her fingers and spoiled her dresses worse than ever, and her messes were so bad they had to be thrown out, every one of them; and she cried and cried.

And then one day her grandmother said, ``It's a shame that child should not learn to

cook if she really wants to so much;'' and her mother said ``Yes, it is a shame, and she shall learn!

Let 's get her a small table and some tins and aprons, and

make a little

cook âÂÂbook all her own out of the old ones we wrote for ourselves long ago,âÂÂâÂÂjust the plain, easy things anybody can

make .'' And both her aunts said, ``Do!

We will help, and perhaps we might put in just a few cookingâÂÂschool things beside.'' It was not long after this that Margaret had a birthday, and she was taken to the kitchen to get her presents, which she thought the funniest thing in the world.

There they all were, in the middle of the room: first her father's present, a little table with a white oilcloth

cover and casters, which would push right under the big table when it was not being used.

Over a chair her grandmother's present, three nice gingham aprons, with sleeves and ruffled bibs.

On the little table the presents of the aunties, shiny new tins and saucepans, and cups to

measure with, and spoons, and a toastingâÂÂfork, and ever so many things; and then on one corner of the table, all by itself, was her mother's present, her own little

cook âÂÂbook, with her own name on it, and that was When Margaret had looked at everything, she

set out in a row the big bowl and the middleâÂÂsized bowl and the little wee bowl, and put the scalloped pattyâÂÂpans around them, and the real eggâÂÂbeater in front of all, just like a picture, and then she read a page in her

cook âÂÂbook, and began to believe it was all true.

So she danced for joy, and put on a gingham apron and began to

cook that very minute, and before another birthday she had cooked every single thing in the book.

This is Margaret's cookâÂÂbook.

THE THINGS MARGARET MADE FOR BREAKFAST A LITTLE

COOK BOOK FOR A LITTLE GIRL When you are to use a cereal made of oats or wheat, always begin to

cook it the night before, even if it says on the package that it is not necessary.

Put a quart of boiling water in the outside of the double boiler, and another quart in the inside, and in this last

mix the salt and cereal.

Put the boiler on the back of the kitchen range, where it will be hardly

cook at all, and

let it stand all night.

If the fire is to go out, put it on so that it will cook for two hours first.

In the morning, if the water in the outside of the boiler is cold,

fill it up hot, and

boil hard for an hour without stirring the cereal.

Then turn it out in a hot dish, and send it to the table with a