22/28 Turnips require a long time, but if cut thin they will cook in an hour and a quarter." "An hour and a quarter, indeed!" she moaned. summer squash--..." mumbled Billy's dry lips. "But what do folks eat in January--_January_ ?" It was the apparently inoffensive sentence, "New potatoes will boil in thirty minutes," that brought fresh terror to Billy's soul, and set her to fluttering the cookbook leaves with renewed haste. |