No, no: it burns too much.

If you can get somebody to wash up, I'll cook.

And just look here: it would be very nice if we could have some music after dinner.

You've got a piano, haven't you?
That's right.

Well, now, don't you ask that pretty Miss A----, who has just come out from England, to come and stop with you, and then we could have some music ?" "Where did you learn to cook ?" I inquired, suspiciously; for F----had also assured me _he_ could cook, and this had upset my confidence.
"On the west coast; to be sure! Ask Vere, and Williams and Taylor, and everybody, if they _ever_ tasted such pies as I used to make them." My countenance must have still looked rather doubtful, because I well remember sundry verbal testimonials of capability being produced; and as I was still very ignorant of the rudiments of the science of cookery, I shrank from assuming the whole responsibility of the family meals.