Mary Frances Cook Book: Adventures Among the Kitchen People

I am bothered by the attitudes of the people in these books.

Father is not a nice man. There was no need for him to be that nasty to the tramp.
Aunt whateverhernameis is not a nice woman.
Billy is selfcentered, Bob is nasty - frankly, he shouldn't have gotten any more cake after that nasty little poem of his. He should have been send home without anything, and learn to behave.
The kitchen people aren't that nice either. All the bickering and quarreling. :-(
And the attitudes! A good little woman, of course, because there are no other values in females. Learn to do your womanly chores as soon as possible, that's all you'll ever be good for, and doing those things well is just the least that can be expected of you.
Also, why didn't anyone tell her to mind the oven? That she can't leave the food on the stove? And why couldn't the pots and pans move when it was needed, while they were moving a lot when it wasn't needed? Good help that was.

So, no, I'm not too fond of these books.

I love the idea, though, of household implements teaching the girl to do all kinds of things. :-)

Oh, I forgot all about the Pickaninny fudge... until I read the Mary Frances Crocheting and Knitting book where they made a black nanny doll (Dinah Doll)
“Well,” said Mary Frances, “the first is ‘Pickaninny Fudge!' Isn't that just like Mother!—to call Chocolate Fudge that cute name!”
So... er... “cute”.