It had come from the best chefs available and, as she had been most interested in seeing what they did, she was already reasonably experienced at making sweets and chocolates for her friends at Christmas and Easter.
It was not that difficult to make some of the exotic dishes from the cookery books that she had bought.
John really enjoyed her food and he liked a good side of roast beef more than anything else.
He had always in his life left the more frilly dishes, as he thought of them, to women, but because his adored wife was doing it for him, he praised every dish she made.
As she was determined that, although they lived in a cottage they should not take on cottage ways, she taught Calina to be as good a cook as she was herself.
Calina now hurried to the kitchen and made her mother
