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THE DOMESTIC SIDE 21of co-operationis due to the decided talents thatmy Partner has displayed in the matter of theSweets a department that I had perhapsneglected.I shall never be a good plain cook.I sometimeswonder if,even in these days of rising wages, Ishould be worth twenty pounds a year to anyone.For there are great gaps in my experience.My fixed determination to have nothing to dowith cookery books and to spurn the advice of theexcellent Mrs. Beeton has restricted my knowledgeof the common fare of e very-day life.itButmay, I think, with truth be said that with allmy shortcomings there is about my cookingsomething of that dash and originality whichcharacterizes the amateur in every branch ofsport. I pride myself on making much of humblethings, for it is when the forager has failed andsupplies are low that the caravan cook must riseto his best efforts.I should think little of him ifhe could not make fish-cakes without fish.Aboveall, I like to deal with the potato and the egg.Theyare both a constantstand-by, but widelydifferent in character one of a grand consistency,apt to be carved or chipped or shredded,mashed or moulded : the other with a wide rangeof body and fluidity, from the merest froth to an