Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-03
The Do11s Cooking Club

Marjorie's big sister Ruth gave party to
Marjorie and her friends, and to Marjorie's
doll. Alice, and her friends. 1t was the
funniest kind of a party, for the invited
guests had to get their own supper. You
see, it was cooking party, and it was
given In Sister Ruth's own new shiny
kitchen, for Sister Ruth had not been mar
ried very long, and she was very proud of
her housekeeping
The cook had gone out for the afternoon.
and at exactly o'clock Sister Ruth stand
ing IN her new kitchen welcomed six little
girls each wearing a white long-sieeved
apron ana each carrying a doll, who also
wore a white long sleeved apron.
Iach little girl introduced her doll daugh-
yer 10 sister Ruth, and Sister Ruth shook
nahus with all the doll daughters and all
'tT uoii mothers Then the fun commenced
doIi uoi daughters stood around little
doii table, which had little doll mixing
poaIds on 1t. There they waited expecta Mt
- iof what would happen next and in
spite OF all their mothers could do. they
W.. ~ooi9 iean their arms on the table. Then
the doll mothers took their places at a
larger table, where there was larger mix
ing poards, and Sister Ruth gave them each
piece OF dough large enough for three bis
CUTS, ana showed them how to form them
h u,o ii'lie biscuits, and roll them in melted
put.el ana TUCK them snugly together in a
paklng TIN. Then they pricked them with a
iork, covered them over with white nap
KIN and put them in a warm place to rise
LII. III they We're just twice big when
lney were tucked into the tin. Each girl
pricked her biscuits with her own initials
SO she would now them when they came
out of the oven.
Then each doll mother showed her doll
daughter how to mold and form and butter
and put away in the tiny doll tin and prick
with her initial three tiny bits of dough- 1t
was such fun.
Then the six little girls were counted out.
just as In Il Spy"-that is, three We're
counted out to make peanut taffee, and
three were counted out to make chocolate
caramels.
Inc caramel girls were given a big
saucepan in which they put two squares of
grated chocolate one-half cup of molasses
one-h..I cup of milk, one cup of sugar and
pieca of butter about as big as one square
or chocolate. This they cooked all together
SURFING IL by turns, until it was quite thick
and grew hard and gummy when it was
dropped in cold water. Then they took it
OH the :.ove, put some vanilla about half
a teaspoonfu in, stirred it and put it in
buttered TINS, to cool.
Inc peanut taffy' girls shelled the pea
nuts, took off the little brown skins and
laid the peanuts halved in buttered tin
Ihey spread them thick. for they all liked
lots OF peanuts in their taffy. When they
put two cups of molasses and two Guns Of
sugar into little iron kettle and boiled it
and stirred it until it was very hard anu
snappy, when 1t was dropped into cold wa
ter. Then they put in piece of butter as
Dig as three peanuts, shells and all Iney
then poured it over the peanuts in the but
tered tin, and set it to cool While the
taffy and carames were cooling they
marked them into little squares
Then they sliced bananas and whipped the
cream to put on them, and to put in the
hot chocolate which Sister Ruth made
Ihey set two small tables they and the
dolls together, one table for themselves and
one very little one for the dolls BY this
time the biscuits had been baked. and were
brown and delicious so they all sat down
to supper They had cold sliced chicken
and celery and pretty red picked beets. and
the biscuits they had made themselves, and
the bananas and cream and chocolate. with
lady fingers, and last, but not least the
taffy and caramels.
The doll mothers and doll daughters were
very, very hungry. and things had never
tasted so good before, and everybody felt
very proud and happy that the cooking had
turned out so well. The only dreadful thing
about it was that the doll daughters forgot
their manners, and did not leave a single
tiny biscuit on the table.
And now the doll mothers and the doll
daughters are wishing Sister Ruth would
give another cooking party, so that they
can show their appreciation of her kindness
by better cooking and better manners.