The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-08-02
LEARN TO COOK WELL.

The health Of the family depends upon
it. We know that there are those who
associate luxury, efeminacy, and all &c.
pendent ills, with every attempt of the
kind recommended. But we Go not be.
lieve that health is pro6ted by eating
raw carrots or doughy bread-or that, to
secure long life, it is necessary to turn
cannibal. Nor were men made to Graz,
like cattle, nor cat food like dogs.
Nor is it necessary, in order to shun
the errors of which we speak, to rush in
to an opposite extreme. Good cookery
does not consist in producing the highest
seasoned dishes, nor such as to foster a
morbid appetite; but in preparing every
dish well, however simple or common it
may be. There are, for instance, fami.
lies who never eat good bread from Que
century to another, aud have no idea in
what it consists Nor are meats cooked
any better within their precincts Those
little, simple, and healthy delicacies,
which the good housekeeper knows in.
stinctively how to produce, are never
seen here. Even dish of potatoes can
not get themselves we'll boiled. \ mem
Der of the family might as well fall among
the Hottentots, as far as proper nursing
is concerned. These things ought not to
be, nor is there any need Of their exist
ence, if the wife has any just notions of
her obligations to herself aud those about
! her
The science of bread making, @: meat
broiling, stewins, roasting, and boiling,
of vegetable cooking, and Of preparing
the multifarious small dishes of all sorts,
which go to make pleasant the table and
all about, are hers-hers to understand
and ractice.-Prairie Farmer.
Cookery, whether it be science, an
art or a trade, must be learned to be un-
derstood; u knowlcd &C Of it does not
come by intuition, aud it is not acquired
by practice alone. 1t cannot be master
ed in week, month, nor in year
even but to be skillful cook requires
careful attention and long gractice. 1t
chiefly devolves on females, and they are
consequently the chief learners. 1t is
the business Of men to find the materials,
and Of women to prepare food for the
table
Is :ot this Important branch of female
education sadly neglected at the present
day! Some females think it is vu gar
and unlady like business to cook then it
is unlad y like and vulgar to eat, aud by
the same rule it is ungen,leman like and
vulgar for males to raise corn aud pota,
toes, to buy and sell these and other arti-
cles, to make writs, dispense medicines,
in short, to earn living and be useful.
Other females think cookery can be learn
ed at any time, aud 50 1t is never learn
ed, or until l., is acquired at the risk,
perhaps, Of family happiness.
Women are born to be married. says
DR.. Leibig. The girls should be cducat,
cd for this purpose. They are to be
housekeepers, aud the essential part Of
housekeeping is cooking, aud the part
which requires the longest time to learn.
Is not great mistake made in putting it
off to the last thing or postponing it in.
definitely? Girls learn botany, chem
istry, natural science and philosophy,
music, painting and French and these
and other studies and accomplishments
are all desirable and we'll in their place,
but at the same time they do not learn
how to cook, and yet cooking is a great
and the most difficult part of their duties
as wives. They thus commence wrong
in preparing themselves for the actual
and serious business of life Domestic
education should be first attended to, or
it should 60 hand in hand with intellect
uas culture. The useful and the ncccs.
sary should on no account be neglected,
whatever else is omitted Not that men-
tai culture is immaterial; far from it, the
female mind should not be confined to
the kitchen, but expanded, elevated aud
refined by study and reading, by atten
tion to literature, and the fine arts, by
such accomplishments as render women
interesting and delightful companions
and ornaments to society.
The point is this: Girls should be cd
ucated for housekeepers, for their future
business, the same as boys are educated
or trained for calling or profession by
which they are to earn a living and sup
port family. Boys learn how to cult |
vate the soil, how to make sbo and
writs, how to trade and build vessels F.;
they learn practically the business which
they intend to follow when men, and as
much besides as they can acquire or have
a taste for. Their future business is the
first consideration, On Which their eye is
firmly fixed, and if at the same time they
can become scholars and acquire many
accomplishments, SO much the better
Thus should girls be educated and train
ed, and it implies no iuferori'y in them,
but it does probably call for some change
in the system Of their education.
Mothers are ambitious that their
DAUGHTERS should be respectable, which
means fine young ladies. 1t is natural.
So all girls should become fine young la
dies, but to make them such it is not
necessary that mothers should never 60
out of the kitchen, nor the daughter never
enter it. Mothers sometimes make slaves
of themselves that their daugsters may
walk the streets every pleasant day and
lounge in the parlor, play on the piano
and read novels the rest of the time. All
men Of sense will say, save us from such
fine young ladies'. What are they good
for? They will do to look at. to amuse
one in an idle hour--they answer for par
lor ornaments but not for housekecpers. .
Such young ladies are too fine for prac.
tlcal life, and altogether too expensive
They are not properly educated. They