The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-07-23
Teach Hawaiians how to Cook.

All are agreed upon the promotion of
educationi but differ in respect to kinds and
modes Of instruction. Referring more es-
pecially to Hawaiians we are in favor of q
good deal of training in certain practical
details OF civilized life even TO the neglect
somewhat, of merely literary education.
We have earnestly advocated sanitary in
struction for-Hawaiians; and we regard as
next TO, or equal in Importance to the care
Of the health Of the body. the wholesome
nOurishment of the body-and the art of
cookery properly ranks alongside of the
science Of hygiene.
We are led to make these remarks on
learning certain particulars about the fe-
male school Of st. Cross at Lahaina, in
charge of Miss Albro. This lady has had
charge for some time of about a dozen Ha-
waiian girls, and owing TO the slender pa
trOnage of her school, has exercised a care
full economy in its management, TO the
extent of dispensing with the luxury of n
salaried cook n has applied her own skill
in the kitchen:-and having called in the
assistance of some of her young charges has
been delighted with the culinary aptitude
of Hawaiian girls.-Some of them after a
little training and instruction, and after a
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prepared and appropriately set out, a well
cooked joint, an appetiZing steak, a delicate
suet pudding, a light cake, n toothsome pie
with a tender crisp crust, and Uncertainties
accompanied with their appropriate bland,
or piquante sauces. Now this is a great
knowledge for Hawaiian women. It may
be said; that Hawaiian women, nave little
need Of the culinary art, as practised among
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poi, and raw fish, with perhaps n little
boiled meat. But this sort of diet belonged
TO a period past and gone. Hawaiians now
very generally indulge in a great variety of
prepared food almost as much so as foreign
ers; but they trust almost entirely to the
catering of the Chinese, and patronize to a
great extent the unwholesome pastry, and
other culinary preparations of those busy
people. The increase of so called coffee
shops, and cheap restaurants all over these
islands is owing to the growing taste of
Hawaiians for prepared food according to
the civilized art of cookery; and if their
mothers, their wives, their sisters, or their
daughters could readily prepare the palaoa-
ono, the sweet cakes, and other pastry they
so much delight in, there would be so much
the less patronage of the coffee shops, the
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so much vice in the land. There is q great
deal to be said on this subject, and we pro-
pose to discuss it very fully with Hawaii
ans. We propose to prepare a cookery book
a digest of foreign works on the art, and
adapted to Hawaiian tastes and means, for
general distribution among the Hawaiian
People. Miss Albro has proven that Ha-
waiian girls have an aptitude and a taste
for the refinements of the culinary art. We
trust this ady's hands will be strengthened
in carrying out her admirable initiative in
teaching the art of cooking. Assist her
with a generous patronage to carry on the
best of works for the physical salvation of a
people. And encourage and patronize this
kind of instruction throughout the stands.
Good diet promoting good health must be
reckoned-among the foremost blessings of a
n We appreciate the coming of a cap
i~talist, who can give a generous impulse to
industry and enterprise; but a faithful and
accomplished lady, teaching rude, Ignorant
bad ~livers, to diet wisely, tastefully, and
healthily, is to our min greater in the
Kingdom of Hawaii than a capitalist.