When Mother Lets Us Cook by Constance Johnson has a telling subtitle - "A Book of Simple Receipts for Little Folk with Important Cooking Rules in Rhyme Together with Handy Lists of the Materials and Utensils Needed for the Preparation of Each Dish". The book contains instructions for Boiled Eggs, Sweet Sauces, Tapioca Pudding, Meat Loaf, School Sandwiches, Lemonade, Birthday Cake, Mock Wine Jelly, and more. Excerpt from the book: BREAD-AND-BUTTER RULE Butter your bread before you slice If you want your sandwich nice. BOILING RULE Boil your water hard to brew Tea that's good, and cocoa too. Tea itself should not be boiled; Boil your cocoa or it's spoiled! Artist Bio Author: Constance Johnson (born in 1879) was an American author, best known for the book When Mother Lets Us Cook, and other writing regarding tasks in the household.