Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-13
SCHOOL TO TEACH YOUNG LA
DIES HOW TO COOK.

Unwholesome food improperly served is
the cause of indigestion, dyspepsia, and in
deed many of the Ills that aflict tie human
family. This is a well-demonstrated fact,
and 1t is strange that there has not long since
been a revolution on this subject. Women
are well posted as to the fashionss they are
uunctilious as to what they place upon their
backs. but seem to feel no concern as to what
they take into their stomachs. So they make
an external show they care nothing for the
food that is taken internally for the purpose
of substance. If the world would bestow
less attention to fashionable dressing and
more to what we eat and how to prepare it,
there would be much more health and hap
piness. The mortuary reports show that IN
the cities the death-rate among the coiored
people is nearly twice as great as that among
the whites. This is attributed to a great
extent to unwholesome, improperly cooked
food. The subject of making cooking part
of young lady's education has recently at
tracted considerable attention in England
and in some portions of this coun-
try. Il is proposed to instruct young
ladies in the art or plan of making
food wholesome, diGestible and healthy.
A young lady of refinement, wealth and edu-
cation at first will recoil at making this a
! part of her education. She has no ambition
to become a cook, fearing that possessing a
knowledge of the art she will be often forced
to Practice it. But she should be sufficiently
posted to direct ignorant cooks. Nothing
makes home more unpleasant, disagreeable
and often unhappy than slop coffee, raw meat
unwholesome bread. Half the food properly
served is more attractive than table groan
| ing under an abundance of vIctuals, the taste
and scent of which are nauseatlng. 1t is NJ
| disgrace for the young husband to know how
| to cultivate vegetables, how to make -four
and how to fatten, dress and prepare thu
meats, everything sold in market, and i
should be no disgrace for young
lady to know how they should b.
cooked for the table, so as L
preserve the health of herself and family. Il
England, of late years, the subject of cook
ing has created great interest, and now n
young lady's education is considered com
plete unless she thoroughly understands hov
Have Been established in several places, chic
among which is South Kensington. Her
there are three courses of instruction, and tn
school, Notwithstanding its short existence
has been quite successful. The Toront
Globe gives the following description of th
+ three curses:
The first OF these is specially adapted for thos
who wish to fit themselves for cooks in families. Il
o. this all the details of a well ordered kitchen ar
carefully and infinitely taught and practically illus
: trated. The most mental labor is gone through
and the dIill in order, cleanliness, and taste ar
such as to make those who pass through 1t with in
Z telligence thoroughly good servants. Many youn
ladies' who never expect TO make their living b
ment and go through fell course, SO that they ma
, thoroughly understand the labor of the kitchen
know when 1t is we'll done, and be able il necessary
to give instruction with some measure of practical
| Intelligence. one can easily understand the besse
effect OF such training when the disorder of al
ordinary kitchen and an ordinary cook ar
called to mind. In this department only elementar
cooking is taught. but how important thl
had a potato properly boiled a cup of te
| deeenuy made. The second course may be said L
comprehend the science Of the preparation of food
and is largely attended by young ladies'. 1t is divide
into two sections: first, the demonstration, room
where lectures are given ana then the practicerOon
for the practical application of what has been said
There very many destined to be the future mIstresse
of happy well-ordered homes may be seen, arraye
in high-necked aprons and other necessary appl
ances, working out, under the direction OF a teacher
the instructions they have just received and takIn
a pride IN their successful operations. The thr
course Is intended TO meet the wants OF the workIn
classes, who, for small charge, receive nstructio
which may enable them TO manage their humbl
households with order and economy.
As evidence of the popularity of thi
institution we have only to state that NOR
than two thousand pupils attended last yeal
and are rejoiced at the information they &C
quired. 1t is stated that ladies who ha
been cooking for years admitted that the
had been botches and never before knew hoy
to make food wholesome and to impart TO
the flavor necessary to make it palatablt
Such institutions should be encouraged eve
rywhere by all possible means. If we ha
more of such schools the many disease
which are consequent upon the consumption
of indigeshble food, made so because I'm
properly cooked, would disappear, and b,
succeeded by health and more happiness il
the household, which is often marred b,
comments upon smoked food, so blunder
ingly and bunglingly cooked that no one car
tell what it Is either by its smell or taste
Women who consider that the life of tn,
lilies, which toll not, ought to be theirs
care nothing for the food upon which they
suosist so they are familiar with the fashions
of the day. But the women who propose to
be active, earnest workers in their Legitimate
spheres-women whose hearts are unsel6sh
and who propose to help in the nursery and
in the kitchen-will not feel degraded in
learning anything wife should know.
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