NOTE.--Remember that all measurements are level or even with the top. To divide a spoonful, cut it through the middle lengthwise, for a half; and across that, for one-quarter of a spoonful. NO. 8.--POTATO SOUP. Place on the table: 3 freshly boiled potatoes 1 onion butter parsley flour dredger pepper salt 1 pint milk (2 cups) 1. Put the milk in the upper part of a double boiler, half filling the under part with boiling water. 2. Throw in 2 slices of onion, and put double boiler on the stove for 10 minutes. 3. Mash potatoes and add to the hot milk. 4. Add 1 teaspoon salt and a dash of pepper. 5. Put through a wire strainer, rubbing the potatoes through with a spoon. 6. Put into double boiler and place on stove. 7. Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a little pan. 8. Throw into it ½ tablespoon flour. Stir well. 9. Dip a little of the hot milk on this, stirring well, then pour into the soup. 10. Let boil 10 minutes. 11. Add 1 tablespoon chopped parsley. If too thick, add hot water or milk. 12. Serve very hot. [Illustration: Two cups of milk] [Illustration: To divide a spoonful] "Oh, I know how to cook boiled potatoes! They're just like jacket-boiled, only they have their jackets off," she cried. "Why, certainly," exclaimed Boiler Pan, which she had put on the stove half full of water, "I know my part--I just hurry them right along in a jiffy." [Illustration: "I just hurry them along"] He looked so interested that Mary Frances laughed as she dropped the potatoes in. "Are they all to be boi--boiled?" stuttered the bubbling Boiler Pan. "Yes," said Mary Frances, "all except those I put in the oven. Listen! I'll tell you the menu for Billy's Potato Lunch. We'll begin, of course, with soup--Potato Soup." "'Purée' is the word for thick soups," suggested Boiler Pan. "It seems more stylish, don't you think?" "Yes, indeed!" said Mary Frances. "I do believe I'll write a card for each of us to have at our places at the table!" and she quickly brought her school pad from her desk. [Illustration: She brought her school pad.] Then she wrote: MENU Billy's Potato Lunch Purée of Potato Potatoes-in-the-Shell Cold Meat Mashed Potatoes Sliced Bananas with Cream Milk "That 'Potato-in-the-Shell' sounds 'swell,'" said Coffee Pot, "but it seems to me you ought to have something to drink, like coffee, or something of that kind." "Oh, that's true," Mary Frances replied, "but I don't know how to make coffee, and Mother said I must make everything in the order it came in my book----" "Won't you look to see if my turn doesn't come soon?" interrupted Coffee Pot. [Illustration: "See if my turn doesn't come soon?"] "Not to-day," Mary Frances shook her head. "To-day we have milk. [Illustration: "To-day we have milk."]