Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-09-06
AMATEUR COOKERY.
The Newest Nosion Of the Pretty
Girls Of Boston.
From the Boston Post.

Girls OF Boston.
From the Boston Post DIR
There is kitchen millennium approach
ing whea the occupation of domestic croak-
ers will De goae, and they will have to
search elsewhere for employment, becsuse
the question of service is to be spec edily set
tied. "What shall we do With our daugh-
ters?" quest ons Mrs. Livermore of nearly
every iyceum audience in the country.
SNAKE cooks of them," answered Mrs.
Howe triumphsnsly, sets to work at
once on her plan of reformation. 1t has
had small beginning in the "Girl's club"
They meet every Saturday during the win
ter. When it was time for the meetings TO
cease for the season they resolved them
selves into number Of small clubs for work
during the summer. There was French
class formed, an Italian class, class in
mental philosophy, another in social analy-
sis, and at Mrs. Howe's suggestion cook
ing clab.
This is by many the largest class of all,
aud decidedly the most enthusiastic. All
manner of experiments are tried; old famt-
ly recipes are hunted up that have been
hidden away because they have been utterly
usel ass, and yet were kept in the family like
tradition. French cook books are studied
with more earnestness than was ever given
to Freach grammar. The regulation cook
looks on aghast, but as yet says nothing.
She is trife more supercilious; she is very
sceptical; she does not believe that this new
enthusiasm will last; she does not dream
that her scepter Is falling from her hands to
the dainty white ones open 10 receive it.
Isn't this the beginning of social revolu-
ton?
Every week supper or dinner or break
fast is given at the house of one of the MEM
bers, and every one has to contribute some
thing to the feast. The mysterious ''sOme-
thing" comes in q handbasket, carefully
packed, and is given into the hands Of the
ones who arrange the tables. Then there
is such q hutter Of anticipation and eager
ness until the doors are opened into the
dining room, when they all flock eagerly
out, first to test each others cooking.
"How nice that bread looks. Who made
it ?n
"Oh! those delicious almond cheese
cakes, where did they come from ?'
81 brought them, calls one, "and what
time had with them. l didn't butter
my tins enough and they broke dreadfully
when took them out; but Imended every
one, and you never would know"
"Parker house rolls J Who is up to that,
l wonder?" -
The blonde beauty Of the elnb sekDowE
edged the rolls, and her sister, young mat
ron, laid claim to the bread, while the
chicken crcquettes were owned by bright
black eyed girl, who, when her dulies IS &C
tive member of the cooking club permit
her, translates biographies from the German
and writes pretty letters for the papers. o.
course all these girls are ry car full of crit
icisms, and they praise everything that
comes to the taUle as they feel in duty
,und to d.. BIT there is beyond that
test by W ich everything is really tried.
After the supper is over, general talk on
cooking ensues, aud recipes are exchanged,
If recipe is not asked for, the unfor IN ate
dish is never again offered at that table.
One of the young ladies' has already de-
termined on gathering together the incest
recipes, those that haVe been tested, and
publ shing cook book-a cook book for
girls, % be used for all practical purposes by
the coming cooks. 1t will be designed for
those young housekeepers, too, who are go
in to begin their domestic lifs in the old
fashioned way--that by and by will be the
new fashion-of cariLg for their houses
themselves and making them really homes.