The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-05-19
kitty AS A COOK.
She Tries Her Hand at Making a Custsrd
Not Complete Success.

Not Complete success
"Everybody's talking about cooking.
Mammareads books and things all about
Miss Parloa and Miss Corson. and says
I'm to be good cook when Pm older.
Papa wants me to be 2 useful woman,
and says every girl ought to learn tc
cook.
II think I'm old enough now. I'm
eight years old. lean cook some al
ready. Bridget gave me some dough
the other day, and l made lovely little
biscuits with it They were as light as
could be.
"And helped her make a custard
for tea. l mean was going to beat
the eggs for her, but broke the bowl
they were in, and she thought She d
better finished it up herself.
at was beautiful custard; yellow
down in the glass dish, and foamy on
top, just like snow heaped up.
''Susy Pratt came to spend the day
with me, and in the afternoon we
thought we'd go to the kitchen and
help Bridget We went, but it was
Bridget's afternoon out, and the blinds
were all shut, and the floor was scrub
bed up clean.
a said: Lets make q custard all by
ourselves! But Susy laughed, and
said | couldn't. As if she knew any
thing about it! OF course knew |
could, and knew papa'd be very much
pleased if l made custard for tea.
Il found a pan of milk, and set it on
the stove. Bridget had shut all the
hampers, but there was plenty of coal
in, so ! opened them to make the stove
hot. got some eggs.
"They didn't seem to be the same
kind of eggs Bridget takes, for they
splashed about like every thing when 1
broke them, They went on the floor
and on the table and on my apron
when l broke them, and l know
Bridget's eggs didn't do like that
81 couldn't find the egg-beater, but
there was thing that looked very
much like it, so l took that. let Susy
beat the eggs, and they splashed just
as bad as when l broke them.
Then l went to get the other things.
l got sugar and butter and cream tar
tar and mOlasses, for [ meant to have
it good.
u asked Susy if they put vinegar in
custards, but she didn't know, but she
knew their Kate put vinegar in good
many things. 1 heard papa say he
don't like things too sweet, so I put a
little-not more than half q teacup.
We put all the things in milk, and me
and Susy watched. It didn't seem to
look like Bridget's custards. Susy said
their Kate stirred hers. L said, Oh,
yes, so does Bridget
81 put in a spoon, but it wouldn't
stir nicely at all. 1t was all hard and
sticky on the bottom, and when l tried
hard it splashed on the stove. And the
stove was red-hot, and it went Spit
and sizzzz, and made most dreadfuL
smell.
Then Susy said: Stop; it's getting
foamy now twas. 1t bubbled and
foamed beautifully, but the next min
utes that custard went right up to the
top of the pan and ran all over the
stove. 1t sizzzed worse than ever, and
hoped about and sputtered, and a
great black smoke went up to the cell
ing.
Il heard great noise on the stairs,
and mamma saying: is the house on
fire?' And grandma saying: Bless
us! What's the matter? what's is the
matterP' And sister Lucy saying:
Phe-e-ew, what a smellr Then they
rushed into the kitchen, and Lucy
opened all the windows, and mamma
pushed the custard onto the back of the
stove. 1t had been running over all
the time, but when she did that it went
right down in the pan and there was
hardly any custacd left.
Then mamma took cloth and took
the pan and went to the door. l said,
'You'ro not going to throw it out are
you, mammal She said, You can
have it if you want it, Kitty
81 got spoon and tasted it. Susy
tasted it, too. Then we didn't want
any more custard, but we both went
and got drink of water. And | didn' t
care bit when mamma threw the
custard out.
Lucy said it was the lamp-chimney
cleaner | took to beat the eggs. But
she said it wasn't bit of difference.