Chicken and Oyster Fricassee.
Cabbage. Potatoes.
Fondue. Peaches and Cream.

She had also bought again a forequarter of lamb, so that she might see how far Marta had profited by her instructions. She would vary the cooking somewhat, but the cutting and arrangement of the joint would be the same. She noted in her account-book that evening:

Lamb,$1.10
Cream,.10
Oysters,.15
Butter, 3 lbs.,.75
Eggs, 2 dozen,.50
Peaches, 4 quarts, .20
Total,$2.80

She had learnt that the last week she had ordered too little butter and needed three pounds instead of two.

CHAPTER XII.
MOLLY AND MRS. LENNOX ON THE RUFFLE QUESTION—FRICASSEE OF MUTTON—CABBAGE AGAIN.

Marta, unpromising as her appearance was, had shown considerable aptitude for cooking, but about the house generally she was rather hopeless. She had succeeded already in breaking two of the pretty ornaments Molly had on her bureau, and therefore the latter had decided to trust her to touch nothing that required careful handling. She was hopelessly mixed, too, about laying the table. The breakfast was laid as for dinner, and vice versa, and the result was that Molly did not depend on her to do either, it being easier to do them herself. When she had kept house a few years longer she learnt that to do things herself was, in spite of the proverb, the way not to get them done well by any one else. But the trouble was so slight she did not think it worth while to struggle against it.

She meant to have exactly the same dinner as last Tuesday, only she had shoulder of lamb roasted instead of breast. She stood by while Marta cut the shoulder out, and then read over the recipe for tomato soup, and lemon pie, pastry for which was left from the chicken pie made on Saturday, and then left her to cook the dinner alone, while she went to Mrs. Lennox according to her promise.

She found that lady busy ironing. She looked white and exhausted, and yet there was a large pile of little clothes all trimmed by the mother’s industrious fingers, and, alas, trimmed so much.