“It was the first time in twenty years that Mom Wallis had eaten anything which she had not prepared herself, and now, with fried chicken and company preserves before her, she could scarcely swallow a mouthful. To be seated beside Gardley and waited on like a queen! To be smiled at by the beautiful young girl across the table, and deferred to by Mr. and Mrs. Tanner as "Mrs. Wallis," and asked to have more pickles and another helping of jelly, and did she take cream and sugar in her coffee! It was too much, and Mom Wallis was struggling with the tears. Even Bud's round, blue eyes regarded her with approval and interest. She couldn't help thinking, if her own baby boy had lived, would he ever have been like Bud? And once she smiled at him, and Bud smiled back, a real boy-like, frank, hearty grin. It was all like taking dinner in the Kingdom of Heaven to Mom Wallis, and getting glory aforetime.”
A cook of roughly the same moment, setting down the same dish.
HOUSEHOLD METHODS OF PREPARATION. BY MARIA PARLOA. *** PREPARED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS, A. C. TRUE, DIRECTOR. [Illustration: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE] WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 1917.
Sources: The passage is from Grace Livingston Hill, A Voice in the Wilderness, free to read in full at Project Gutenberg. The recipe is from Parloa, Canned Fruit, Preserves, and Jellies of 1887, also free in full. Both are in the public domain in the United States. The binding above is ours — forest cloth, teapot stamp.