Status Updates From The Mary Frances Cookbook: ...

Recipe No. 37,>Bread Pudding, sounds interesting.

No. 27.—Apple Snow. Sounds interesting!

No. 20.—Soft Custard: (late update)
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*Rice Pudding.

Rice Pudding, recipe No. 24; my all-time favorite dessert, only we call it Mhalbi.
This recipe is a bit different from mom's:
3 tablespoons rice
¼ cup sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
sprinkling nutmeg
4 cups milk, or 3 cups milk and 1 cup water
I'll try this later.

I'm so glad I tried recipe No. 20.—Soft Custard:
1 cup milk
1 egg
2 tablespoons sugar
dash of salt
nutmeg

The one I tryed and saw on Youtube was:
2 cups of milk, 2 beated eggs, 1/4 sugar, and pinch of salt. All cooked in a pot (or u could cook them in a water bath in the oven)

"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..."

165 pages and we've finally had our first vegetable in any recipe. Wowie! (it's cabbage)

Health food: steamed rice and custard
Relatively healthy: cakes, candy
Not healthy at all: pie crust, because "when flour or starch grains are coated in fat they are too dry to 'swell' well in cooking, and cannot burst open. They are not, I'm sorry to say, a very di-ges-ti-ble food."

"Plain cooked rice may be served as a vegetable."

Oh old timey food advice, I'm astounded we didn't all die thanks to you.

'"All canned goods ought to be opened an hour or two before needed, and turned out," explained Can Opener, "to get well aired."'

I wonder if that was a real need with old canning methods, or just some rando idea.

"Mary Frances has been giving me a cooking lesson."
"A cooking lesson!" exclaimed Aunt Maria. "A cooking lesson! Mary Frances! A cooking lesson!"
Then she began to laugh.

What a bitch.

"I know now why Mother likes Father to telephone when he's bringing home company to dinner," laughed Mary Frances.
"Oh, don't you worry, folks," said Billy, "everything'll be all right."
"That's the highest compliment a boy can pay, Mary Frances, you know," said Eleanor.
Yeah... why would people consider a girl?

The father meeting the tramp. OMG! What an a-hole!

So sweet!