The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-04-19
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LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
From an Occasional Correspondent.
NEW YORK. April 16, 1877.

From an Occasional Correspondent.
NEW YORK, April 16, 1877.
In beginning my letter to-day, men
ton cooking as an art, and give you
what little news I have gathered from
the kitchen during my visit to the ''cook-
ing school," A Cooking school" is a
novel establishment, even for New York,
and but few persons really know how to
enjoy the teachings of such a school
until they get on the bench in the kitch-
en-. Miss Carson, the Principal of this
school, and "chiefcook and bottlewasher," !"
is the name of the energetic young maid
who has undertaken to teach girls, domes-
tically inclined, how to cater for their
husbands, and especially how to cook.
The science OF cooking of course dates
back to the year l, but how Mrs. Adam
cooked we ara not informed. At any
rate she did not have the same kind of
cooking utensils used at the present day.
This school is located at No. 8, st.
Marks Place, and is denominated the
New York Cooking School. 1t has been
successful, and at the matinees you meet
an audience worth beholding. The sys-
tenn of this school, differing from others,
is a simple one, and twelve consecutive
lessons constitute an entire course, no
uniforms or extras. In the first lesson
you study the manufacture of soups,
namely: pea soup, verminelli, spinach,
&C., &c. The second you advance to
"6shy dishes," broiled, baked and fried.
The third you take up meats. The fourth
constitutes a thorough digest of large
meat dishes, canton of lamb, stuffed
breast of veal but stuffed breasts are
common, and ham. The fifth gives you
a delicate idea of poultry and game,
broiled, boiled, roasted, and even fricas-
see dishes. The sixth gives you thor
ough digestion of all the vegetables.
The seventh brings you to macaroni.
The eighth treats upon eggs, and how
many one should eat. The ninth teaches
all about bread I'D biscuits. The tenth
is sweet lesson, of course-on cakes
and pies. The eleventh lesson is very
thin and sickly, cookery for the sick be-
ing its principal teachings, and the
twelfth lesson treats upon the various
dishes for the small fry, and particularly
infants, and more particularly boisterous
infants.
The terms of this celebrated school are
from five to ten dollars, according to
manner of instruction. However, it is
not boarding school.
The chief cook is Monsieur Pallas, and
he has had considerable experience
There is but one room,. which is, of
course, the kitchen. The students, dur
ing lecture hours, seat themselves at q
large table, note book and pencil in hand,
and as the cook carefully demonstrates
the great necessity of each ingredient,
not too much pepper there, not too much
salt here, the cook explains minutely to
her scholars how much should be used,
the gases evolved land from eggs they
are sometimes disagreeable) how treated,
seasoned, cooked and served. just think
how fascinating the work must be. when
she says: "Girls, 5 gu must cutup. those
vegetables in as pretty manner as pos
sible." Il thoug int the girls cut up more
antics than vegetables the time I saw
them.) She says: "You can cook just as
well when you cook prettily. There is a
great deal in the way food is served"
she continued; "and the nicer and pret-
tier it looks, the more one likes it." So.
of course, according to her Judgment, if
you want to be economical serve your
food in careless way, and you will have
enough left for to-morrow's train.
But the best and most pleasing feature
of the business is, after the students have
handled it to their satisfaction, a repast
is the precious reward for their labor
during the lesson. Now, a school of this
kind is not unconstitutional, and one
would imagine the "girls" had fair con-
stitutions, when amazed at the manner
in which they "help themselves" no
young men being lear to call upon. I
affixed the pepper TO a brunette, but, with
peculiar curl Of the lip, she replied, "I-
I-I-thank you" So I declined the
honor to pepper anybody else, and, their
meal being partially finished, and as I
was very hungry By this time, I found it
very convenient to Gon my chapeau and
"bid faHewell to every care, lin the
shape of meats,) and wipe my weeping
eyes"
THE WONDERFUL TELEPHONE.
In one of my previous letters, I alluded
to the telephone concert, which was to
take place at the Academy of Music, and
as it has taken place and was a grand
success, I must give you the interesting
programme of music, which was received
by telegraph from Philadelphia. I can
not compliment the entertainment at
Steinway Hall, on the End inst, as the
heavy rain fall prevented the perfect
transmission of the music. However, as
the first melody was received the enthu-
siasm of the scientific audience was i'm
,ooneo Rao;doo the, to1onhOna omy,eo.