Select spaghetti in preference to the pipe macaroni. Break it into small pieces, put it over the fire in boiling water and cook ten minutes. Drain off the water, pour a cupful of milk over the macaroni, and cook until tender. When done, stir in a good tablespoonful of butter, and salt to taste.

This makes an excellent nursery dessert when eaten with butter and sugar.

With The Chafing-Dish

A few years ago it might have been thought necessary to include, in a book of this character, an elaborate treatise upon the methods of cooking with the chafing-dish, and a long list of recipes. But we have changed all that. Few and far between are the homes in which the chafing-dish is not a familiar friend, and each man or woman who handles it has his, or her, own pet recipes for at least the best-known dishes that can be prepared over an alcohol flame. Therefore it is not designed to give elementary instructions here. There follow only such dishes as have seemed new or unusual, and so worthy of being made known to the public. Those who desire arguments in favor of the chafing-dish, minute directions for its use, and an extensive collection of trustworthy recipes, are respectfully referred to "The Chafing-Dish Supper," by Christine Terhune Herrick, published by Charles Scribner's Sons.