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Thirteenth Day: Aunt

The next morning Rose came in saying that her mamma would like to have her wait on the table with the other girls, if agreeable to Aunt Nelly, and offering her services as cook. At the same time Mabel was invited to spend the morning with Jessie, with the promise that she should come home when the little waiters ate their lunch.

She would rather have stayed and helped at home, but having a strong suspicion that she would be somewhat in the way, she went off very pleasantly, and the cooking party set to work in good earnest. "Now for our new recipe," said Aunt Jane.

No. 169-STEWED SWEETBREADS.

Lay the sweetbreads in milkwarm water for an hour, having first carefully trimmed off all bits of skin and fat. Then throw into boiling water and boil hard ten minutes, after which cool them off in ice-water until they become white and firm. Then stew until tender in a very little water, add for each one a heaping teaspoonful of butter, a little chopped parsley with pepper and salt, and a little cream, together with the yolk of a hard boiled egg rubbed to a powder. Let them simmer in this gravy for five minutes; then send to table in a covered dish. "The sweetbreads will require three-quarters of an hour to stew," said Aunt Jane, " so we will begin on them about eleven o'clock, as our lunch is to be at one. They are something you can't hurry. Next come our two ways of cooking potatoes."