The Child's Cookery Book. By Louisa S. Tate. (Grant Richards.)
—This is a very nice little book which ought to rejoice the hearts of a great many children, and prove of real use to some of them as they grow older. The recipes are given in a simple, easy style, and printed in pleasant story-book type, which makes the page look much more attractive than that of the usual cookery-book. The idea of the author is not that children should take her book down to the kitchen and set to work at cooking by themselves, but that here are recipes which they may easily carry out "under slight supervision." Meat dishes are for the most part avoided, as taking more time than children are generally allowed to spend in front of the kitchen fire ; but there is a good variety of soups, puddings, creams, cakes, and dainty supper-dishes, both sweet and savoury. An experienced house- keeper suggests as a simplification of the recipe for boiling rice that the cold-water douche should be omitted, the time for boiling precise, as nineteen or twenty minutes, and then—if care is taken to use only Patna rice and to put that into plenty of water— children need not scald their finger-tips by pulling out grains to test their hardness. The desert-island pudding at tho end of the book, foraged out of a recipe-book a hundred years old, is amusing. But who will know what " eringo-root" is?
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