The fun of cooking; a story for boys and girls (1915) (14594827990)

"But, Norah, if you can't begin till you know how, how does anybody ever learn?" Illustration by Sarah K. Smith
Identifier: funofcookingstor00bent (find matches)
Title: The fun of cooking; a story for boys and girls
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Benton, Caroline French
Subjects: Cookery
Publisher: New York, Century Co.
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see if it gets firm.\Mien it does, it is done. Some jams take longer to cookthan others, because some fruits are more juicy. This sounded very easy indeed, and Mildredbegan to mash and measure at once, and soonthe jam was over the fire. But it took a longtime to cook. Norah brought a dishjDan full ofjelly-glasses and put them in the sink, and Mil-dred washed these and dried them and arrangedthem on two trays, all ready for the jam; butevery moment or two she stirred the jam well.By and by, after more than an hour, the peacheslooked transparent, and then Norah said theywere done; and, sure enough, when she hurriedlyput some on a saucer and stood this on theice in the refrigerator to get it cold quickly,it grew a little stiff and the edges were like jelly. Mildred carefully lifted the hot saucepan fromthe fire and began to dip out the jam with a cupand put it in the glasses; when she finished,there were eight of them, all filled with cleargolden-pinky-brownish jam, beautiful to look at,
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O < JAMS AND JELLY 157 and, oh, so good to taste I Mildred ran for hermother and Brownie to look at it. ^I wishFather and Jack were here, she sighed, *andMiss Betty, too. I am so proud, I want every-body to see it. ^It really is lovely, said her mother. Inever saw any that was nicer. Xext winter wewill eat it on hot buttered toast, and put it inlayer cake, and have it ready for school sand-wiches. But only eight little, little glasses, mournedMildred. T^liy didnt I make eight dozen ofthem? TVell, eight dozen is a good many, laughedher mother. Perhaps—just perhaps, youknow, you might find yon got tired even of peachjam before you had eaten all those up. But thebeauty of making jams in fruit time is that youcan make a few glasses of it any time you wantto. Peaches are just in season now, and wehave them nearly every day. so you can put upmore at any time. Of course! said Mildred, delightedly. •!never thought of that. I 11 make the rest of myeight dozen yet. Mother Blair; I m sure