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A LITTLE COOK BOOK FOR A LITTLE GIRL

by CAROLINE FRENCH BENTON Author of ``Gala Day Luncheons'' Boston, The Page Company, Publishers

Copyright, 1905 by Dana Estes & Company

For Katherine, Monica and Betty Three Little Girls Who Love To Do ``Little Girl Cooking''

Thanks are due to the editor of Good Housekeeping for permission to reproduce the greater part of this book from that magazine.

INTRODUCTION

Once upon a time there was a little girl named Margaret, and she wanted to cook, so she went into the kitchen and tried and tried, but she could not understand the cook books, and she made dreadful messes, and spoiled her frocks and burned her fingers till she just had to cry.

One day she went to her grandmother and her mother and her Pretty Aunt and her Other Aunt, who were all sitting sewing, and asked them to tell here about cooking.

``What is a roux,'' she said, ``and what's a mousse and what's an entrée? What are timbales and sautés and ingredients, and how do you mix 'em and how long do you bake 'em? Won't somebody please tell me all about it?''