The Mary Frances Cook Book

Another of the charming Mary Frances books, this one 'Among the Kitchen People', where young girls are encouraged to be mother's helper's in the kitchen, as Mary Frances wants nothing more than to be useful. She learns (and shares) how to make tea, toast and boiled eggs, among other things, as she enjoys adventures with her many friends, including Mantel Clock, Auntie Rolling Pin and Yellow Bowl.


By : Jane Eayre Fryer (1876 - )

01 - The Kitchen People



02 - Toaster Man



03 - Mary Frances Mother



04 - Mary Frances Warns the Kitchen Folks



05 - Aunt Maria



06 - Jacket-boiled Potatoes



07 - The Pot-and-Kettle Fight



08 - The Potato Lunch



09 - Mary Frances Gets Breakfast



10 - The Breakfast Burns Up



11 - A Joke on Aunt Maria



12 - The Tramp



13 - Company to Lunch



14 - A Patent Dish-washing



15 - Thimble Biscuits



16 - The Dolls' Kitchen Party



17 - The Sick Neighbor



18 - A Man's Lunch



19 - Poor Blue Pitcher



20 - Mary Frances Gives a Cooking Lesson



21 - The Picnic



22 - The Candy Pull



23 - Getting Ready for a Party



24 - The Tea Party



25 - Mary Frances Gets Dinner



26 - Mother's Surprise. ''Good-Bye, Little Miss''


Dear Girls:

This book tells the story of Mary Frances, a little girl whose great ambition was to help her mother. So anxious was she to do this that even the humble Kitchen People became her teachers and instructors. They talked to her, a thing never heard of before; helped her over the hard places, and explained mysterious secrets she could never otherwise have understood. They wove around a simple little book of recipes her mother had made for her the spell of Fairyland; they led her through a series of delightful adventures such as never happened to any girl before, in which she lived for three whole happy weeks, and out of which she emerged no longer a little girl, but a real little woman.

Some very wise people would call this a story book, some a manual training book, and others a cookery book, but Mary Frances knows better; she knows that it is a Book within a Book that introduced her to Aunty Rolling Pin and a lot of other dear, dear friends, such as no little girl ever had before, and whom she now wishes to introduce for the first time to all other little girls. (I know that she gained their consent to do this because she told me so.)

In the hope that Mary Frances' wish may be realized, this record of her adventures is sent out to the girls of America with the best wishes of The Author.

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