| 3 | pints of fruit, all prepared. |
| 1½ | small cups of vinegar. |
| 1¾ | pints of sugar. |
| 2 | teaspoonfuls of powdered cinnamon. |
| 1 | teaspoonful of powdered cloves. |
Boil till thick; about an hour and a half.
In making spiced grapes, prepare them exactly as for jam, and use pulp and skins.
Their mother did not know they were making this new kind of preserve, and she was delighted when she was shown all the little glasses of it.
"All spiced fruits are especially nice with meat," she said, "and with this rule you can spice almost any kind of fruit; pears, or peaches, or apples, or plums—"
"Or strawberries, or pineapple, or raspberries," said Brownie.
"Oh, no! I ought to have said any kind of autumn fruit—that is a good way to remember which ones to use. And, Mildred, Norah divided this rule for you, to make it easier, but when I put up spiced fruit, I take twice as much of everything."
"What a pity I'm so stupid about arithmetic!" sighed Mildred. "Think of having to take twice one and three quarter pints of sugar, and twice one and a half cups of vinegar! I'll never get them right."
"Mildred, you remind me of a story some one told me the other day, about a girl who had just come home from college; it's a true story too, and the girl lives right in this town. She thought she would like to learn to cook, so she found a rule for cake in the cook-book and read it to herself; it began something like this: Three cups of flour, two cups of sugar, three teaspoonfuls of baking-powder, and so on. Presently her mother went into the kitchen and found on the table three cups, all filled with flour, two more cups filled with sugar, one cup of milk, another cup of raisins, three teaspoons in a row, all filled with baking-powder, and so on. Think of that!"
"I s'pose they didn't teach multiplying in that college," said Brownie, sympathetically.