"You did?" said Bob, feigning astonishment. "You rolled them out with a rolling pin, I suppose, and——"
"Oh, no, Uncle Bob! You ought never to use a rolling pin, Aunt Bettina says!" said Mildred in a horrified tone, as if she had been cooking for the First Families for a score of years. "Good cooks always pat down the dough—they never roll it out."
"Well, what do you do first? Stir up the dough with a spoon?"
"No, indeed; you use a knife. Then you pat the dough down, and cut out the dear little biscuits with a biscuit cutter."
"And put them side by side in a nicely buttered pan? I know how!"
"But you don't butter the pan," said Mildred triumphantly. "Or flour it, either. Aunt Bettina says that lots of people think the pan has to be buttered or floured, but they're wrong. It's lots better to put the biscuits into a nice clean pan."
"But don't they stick to it, and burn?"
"No, indeed! They don't burn a bit! Look at these!" said Mildred, delighted to find the opportunity to impart some of her newly acquired knowledge.
"Well, what else did you help Aunt Bettina to make?"