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Over the course of some 160 pages, little Mary Frances teaches herself how to cook out of her mother's cookbook...with the help of all the magically talking kitchen implements. To be honest I started skimming the various poems and songs that populate this tale, because they're awful doggerel. But some of the illustrations are quite nice (it looks like two different illustrators to me), and this is a fascinating look into 1910s America. 99% of the recipes are some combination of rice, milk, flour
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