pile on a plate in the oven, while you again grease the iron
and cook another. Serve very hot and crisp, with maple syrup
or powdered sugar and thick cream.

Some people like honey on their waffles. You might try all
these things in turn.


Last of all the things Margaret learned to make for breakfast
came coffee, and this she could make in two ways; sometimes she
made it this first way, and sometimes the other, which is called
French coffee.


Coffee

First be sure your coffee-pot is shining clean; look in the spout
and in all the cracks, and wipe them out carefully, for you cannot
make good coffee except in a perfectly clean pot. Then get three
heaping tablespoonfuls of ground coffee, and one tablespoonful of
cold water, and one tablespoonful of white of egg. Mix the egg with
the coffee and water thoroughly, and put in the pot. Pour in one
quart of boiling water, and let it boil up once. Then stir down
the grounds which come to the top, put in two tablespoonfuls of
cold water, and let it stand for a minute on the back of the stove,
and then strain it into the silver pot for the table. This pot
must be made very hot, by filling it with boiling water and letting
it stand on the kitchen table while the coffee is boiling. If
this rule makes coffee stronger than the family like it, take
less coffee, and if it is not strong enough, take more coffee.