Six Little Cooks; or, Aunt Jane's Cooking Class

A children's story from 1877 that smuggles in a whole cooking course — six little cooks, Aunt Jane's kitchen, and 160 numbered recipes woven through the tale.

Ninth Day

5 pages in this part of Six Little Cooks; or, Aunt Jane's Cooking Class.

Ninth Day

"Dear me!" said Mrs. Vernon, in a despairing tone, as she saw from her bedroom window a carriage drive up to the door; "there's Mrs. Harvey…

Ninth Day: Mabel

But Mrs. King was already far on her way to the kitchen, where her sister sent the three girls to join her, while she herself descended to…

Ninth Day: Blanc-Mange

One quart milk, one oz. Cooper's gelatine or isinglass, two teaspoonfuls vanilla, three-quarters of a cup sugar. Keep out one cupful of the…

Ninth Day: Chocolate

Dissolve three tablespoonfuls corn-starch in two tablespoonfuls milk; break up two ounces of sweetened chocolate in a tin basin over…

Ninth Day: Pudding

Five oz. coffee sugar, one of butter, one quart milk, one pint stale bread crumbs, one lemon, four eggs. Grate the lemon rind and crumb the…

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