The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-11-02
ADINNER TO ORDER.
How six Ladies' Found that the Proof Of the
Pudding IL in the Eating Thereof


Just as 1 was about to start yesterday
morning to attend the FIRST lesson OF the New
York Cooking School in st. Marks place, under
the superintendence Of Miss Corsen, / asked a
fine. sensible girl, who does not scorn to do
homework OF every kind, whether she would
not like to go with me and take lesson In
French cookery. She drew herself no with an
air half shy, half proud, and with wide opening
eyes that looked almost like a stare OF rebuke,
said
81 would rather take lessons In cookery at
home, from my mother"
Sensible remark, thought, but maybe her
mother don't know everything In the art OF
cookery, and perhaps there are some things
that neither her mother nor she could learn
from any French cook book, not even that
Of Prof. Blot himself But 1 did not argue
the point with my young lady. never do. 1
Know US no use; ! put on my hat and went TO
see Giuseppe Rudmann illustrate practically
Miss COrsen's scientific principles VI cookery.
There were six ladies' besides myself who were
Impressed wi n the Importance OF practical illus
tratlons Of the divine gallo art. they were
seated around q long table In the glass kitchen
kitchen proper of the roomy, old fash oned
knickerbooker mansion, where the school Is
located.
am sure that nobodys mother, and / respect
mothers and inother-iove as much as any man
IN the world does, could give such lesson 10
cookery aud domestic ECONOMY combined as 1
think those six ladies we're taught yester-
day morning. In tue first place they saw
kudinann make Potdgc a rEcossds, which,
Translated, means Scotch broth, splen-
did nutritious pOtago composed OF barley,
oat meal. celery. onion. carrot. turuip,
water, OF course, and seasoning, enough for a
family OF six. at An actual cost Of fourteen cents.
1hen a net de sole I'm ,de with small nOunders)
and a hot sitce remOldde. cost twenty cents I;
next, the cooking school, rechdu0to de mOuOH
(warmed -oScr mutton masked aud fred with
sauce Ia Diuphincl. cost thirty cents; then
roast beef, English style, an Improvement on
American roast beef, which | shall no, say too
much about. lest j should he suspected OF a
want Of patriotism, cost ninety cents next. pO-
tatoes Il 1t PrOrencdlc, PLAN mashed potatoes,
but put up IN "A pretty Frenchlned form, that
would have tempted anyOodys mother to nave
eaten tuem, whether she was fond Of
red cabbage. German style. kind Of
not slaw, cost ten cents, and then the crown
ing dish Beignets SOufN tqueeu's fritiers) cost
nitcen cent. CUc nor (Dlack cOrec) cost ten
cents. Count 1t all up and you viii that II
only amounts to one dollar ana ninety-seven
cents und II WAS bountiful dinner Of SIX
American mothers, | care not what section
YOU may select them from, that can give such "A
dinner IS that was at that cost. and then these
six ladies' h I'D lie lTned not only now to mani pu-
late these pretty aud delicious dishes but they
h ID also seen the dinner cooked In the order
that IL should DC, So that tine n.h was ready to
over, and the entrees. ro ist eiitrcmcts, and des
sert. each done to- "A turn. to he served 1t the
right moment, and splendid running lecture.
or instruction, frou the lady superintendent,
going on through the entire course of tue tech
nicAl distractions of the chef dc cuisine, so that
q ch one knew the why and wherefore % every
movement Of the whole drama Of tue dinner |;
Tor u was a. interesting as play and every LADY
looked ~ deeply Interested as the men do VINO
rush nightly to Booth aud to Niblo's to Y izo at
the wonders OF the new ballets thore, and who
SIT with tueir opera gllS-cs glued TO tnetr eyes
during the whole OF the terpsichorean per
Torrance.