"What!" cried Henrietta "What, pray, does the decalogue say about cooks, I'd like to know?"
She went straight to the King's kitchen, where the white-aproned cooks were running about in great confusion.
All the cooks stood round to look on, and could not help admiring the quick, clever way in which he set to work.
"It's a case of too many cooks, I guess," said Marilla, who had listened to this dialogue with a rather guilty expression.
Well, I must go home now to see that Sally cooks up a few of Mr. Johnson's crotchets for supper." And she began to hurry away.
Hang me, but good houses and good cooks are growing too scarce to make one credulous of the ills that can be said of their owners."
Santa Claus lives there all alone, except for old Mother Hubbard, who cooks the meals for him; and her cupboard is never bare now, I can promise you!
Some cooks have an idea that it kills the life of the flour to scald it, but it is a mistaken idea--it is sweeter for it, and will keep good much longer.
Then all the cooks and scullions sprang after it, knocking at it with their aprons. At length one of them caught it just at the very moment that Tubby entered the kitchen, waving his sceptre.
The three Marys were considered as dangerous as high explosives to have about the kitchen, yet they were such good cooks and such admirable housekeepers that they never had to look for a place.