LITTLE MARGARET'S KITCHEN, AND WHAT SHE DID IN IT.—IX.
By Phillis Browne, Author of "A Year's Cookery," "What Girls can Do," &c.
"Iwonder what we shall do to-day, Mary?" said Margaret, as the two children stood by the kitchen table waiting for the next lesson.
"I don't know," said Mary; "but I fancy we are to learn something about fat, for I heard mistress giving orders to put the fat ready for us. And there it is. Don't you see all those pieces of fat on the dish?"
"Well, children," said Mrs. Herbert, who at that moment entered the kitchen, "how would you like to learn to fry to-day?"
"We should like it very much, mother," said Margaret.
"But what shall we make?"
"I wish we might make some apple fritters, like those we had the day before yesterday."
"You shall learn to cook the fritters at our next lesson," said Mrs. Herbert. "To-day we shall be quite sufficiently busy preparing the fat for frying. Can you, Mary, tell me what it is to fry food? If you had to fry the fritters, for instance, how would you set about it?"