/2 teaspoonful of vanilla.
1/2 pint of thick, sweet cream. (Or this may be omitted.)

Put the milk in a saucepan after taking out a small half-cupful
and mixing it with the cornstarch; put in the sugar and salt.
Scrape the chocolate (the squares are those marked on the large
cake) and put this in next. When it steams and the chocolate is
melted and looks brown and smooth, stir up the cornstarch and put
it in, stirring till smooth. Cool, add the vanilla, and pour into
glasses. Just before serving put a spoonful of whipped cream on
top of each glass.

"I do love that," said Brownie, as she wrote down the last word. "When I
eat it, I always think I'm eating melted chocolate creams."

"So do I!" laughed Mildred. "Perhaps Uncle Tom and Aunt Mary won't eat
their creams to-morrow night, and then you and I can have them for lunch
the next day, Brownie."

"They'll surely eat them!" sighed Brownie. "They're too good to leave."

When these were made and safely put away, all but the creamy tops, which
were to go on just before supper the next day, Jack came strolling in.

"Smells awfully good!" he said. "Turkey, and onions, and mince-pies, and
spicy things. Got any cooking for a boy to do--proper cooking, I mean?"

"I've just thought of something," his mother said quickly, "and I need
you to do it right away. The girls are getting up a supper for
Thanksgiving night, and they really ought to have some cake to eat with
the dessert they have just been making."

"Cake!" ejaculated Jack. "I draw the line at cake, Mother Blair; making
cake is not a man's job."

"Not cake, Jack,--only something to go in cake. I want you to crack some
nuts and pick them out for the girls. Here is what they are going to
make now."

NUT CAKES

2 eggs.
1 cup of light brown sugar.
1 cup of nut meats, chopped fine.
2 tablespoonfuls of sifted flour.
1/4 teaspoonful of salt.

Beat the eggs without separating them, and stir in the sugar,
flour, and salt. Add the nuts last, and spread the whole in a thin
layer on a well-greased tin; bake ten minutes, or till the top is
brown. Cut into squares and take quickly from the tin; lay on a
platter till cold.

Jack thought he could crack and even pick out nuts without injuring his
dignity, so he went to work on a panful of pecans, and, by the time
Mildred and Brownie were ready to chop them, they were all ready and
waitin