Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-11-03
Cooking.

There is, doubt less, no domestic NEE
80 urgent at the pa esent writing as tn
need of good cook. =. The ordinar
servant girl knows not hing OF the chem
istry of cooking and @ res nothing 10
it, and the same remark Is true OF
great many women who 10 their owl
work. Mnltitudes of houseke epers neet
to learn that there must be more II
what we eat than something T. ala.
the pangs of hunger. 1t is one tn. ing t
eat, it is quite another thing to be fed
not long ago to US is the common e1.
perience: "My wife goes to market
and selects the best of everything and
has it sent home, and when It comes on
the table it is not fit to eat-spoiled in
the cooking" II that lady had the
strength to cook for her family there
would be no lack of relish and perfec-
ton in the food brought on her table,
but she, like many others, must depend
on the labor of others.
The science of cooking is an exact
science, as exact as chemistry or mathe-
matice or music or astronomy It re-
quires long and careful training, deli
cate manipulation, quietness of sense,
correctness of taste, soundness Of judg-
ment and ripe experience. How many
of these qualities one can expect to find
in the foreign importations Of servants,
our readers very well know. How
many of them are found let the multi
tudes of housekeepers who have trained
enc ''greenhorn" after another for the
last thirty years testify. ..
The simple and easy solution of the
whole question lies in the establishment
and multiplication of cooking schools.
Before we shall h aye these in numbers,
the minds of our women must be
awakened to the vital necessity of con-
certed movement in this matter. 1t is
not difficult thing to obtain graduates
from normal schools to fill the positions
of teachers; we have graduates from
art schools, commercial schools
erery kind of school but those
of cooking, housekeeping, sewing;
and do we not need these even
more than we need some of the
othersP We have begun in social life
with the most PARKWAY needs, and now
we begin to approach those nearer and
nearest. Astrology was the first 80
called science, and in studying this as
trOnomy was born. The science of
chemistry had its origin in the search
for the philosophers stone, which would
transmute everything it touched into
gold. We have now the most beautiful
china and glass and silver services to eat
from. Is it not quite time that the food
served in these dishes should be as fine
in quality, as high in art, as exquisite in
preparation, as faultless in taste, as the
dishes themselvesp We want schools of
plain cooking and schools of art cook
ing, with regular courses and q diploma
at the end of the last course. Those
possessing diploma would not lack for
and remunerative situations.
If several ladies in any city or village
ing chef, and sending their own serv-
ants or children as pupils, the movement
might be begun. They could contract
with their servants to remain with them
at certain price for q certain time in
consideration of the tuition received at
the cooking school. Many housekeep-
ers would be glad to be pupils and have
their children pupils also. When serv-
ant-girls are made to realize that GER
tain employment and increased pay are
sure to those who have been through a
course of culinary instruction, they will
be eager to avail themselves OF it. Until
that time, and without the cooperation
of their employers, they will take as lit
tie interest in the subject as possible.
When Mr.. Blot gave lessons in cookery
some years ago, Brooklyn gentleman
sent his cook to take the course. paying
her tuition, which was $50. He said
that in the next five years she saved him |
that $50 dozen times over. She
learned to economic everything, to
make savory dishes from plain materi-
ais, to cook in the best and easiest man.
ner, and to get up her dinners in style
and taste without waste Of material and
without expense.
Here is q work in which the fields are
white for the harvest. Miss Corson in
New York and Miss Parloa in Boston
are pioneers in the work, and are doing
IN immense amount of good. Their ex-
ample should be followed in every city
and large town, till cooking schools are
Is common as district schools, till the |
who can not cook will be as I'M
and write and spell. We have abolished |
slavery, we are trying to abolish intern
oerance, cruelty to children and cruelty |
10 animals; let us abolish bad cooking |
ind inaugurate the reign of wholesome
food. Thus shall we effec- |
lively pave the way for the long-ex-
,ected millennium.-N. Y. Tribune.
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