COCOA
6 teaspoonfuls of cocoa.
1½ cups of boiling water.
1½ cups of boiling milk.
1 tablespoonful of powdered sugar.
Put the cocoa into the boiling water and stir till it dissolves, then put in the boiling milk and boil hard two minutes, stirring it all the time: take from the fire and put in the sugar and stir again. If you like it quite sweet, you may have to use more sugar.
PART III
DINNER AND TEA DISHES
SAUCES AND SWEETS
At first, of course, Margaret could not get dinner all alone; indeed, it took her almost a year to learn how to cook everything needed—soup, vegetables, meat, salad, and sweets; but at first she helped the cook, and each day she cooked something. Then she began to arrange very easy dinners when cook was out, such as cream soup, beefsteak or veal cutlets, with potatoes and one vegetable, and a plain lettuce salad, with a cold sweet made in the morning. The first time she really did every single thing alone, Margaret’s father gave her half a crown; he said it was a “tip” for the best dinner he ever ate.