New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-25
COOKING.
from The WcekIn 7ribnne


There is, doubtless. no domestic need so urgent M
4 the present writing the need Of good cooks The
ordinary servant girl knows nothing of the chem
istry of cooking and nothing for it, and the
I same remark is true Of a great many women who
do their work. Muutudes of housekeepels
need to learn that there must be more in what we
{ eat than something to aay the pangs of hunger.
Ii is thing to eat it is quite another to be fed.
The experience of gentleman related not long ago
to is the common experiences " My wife goes TO
market and selects the best of everything and has it
sent home, and when it the table it is not
tit to eat,-spoilcd in the cooking" If that lady
! had the strength to cook for her family there
would be no lack of relish and perfect IN in the
food brought her table, but she, like many
Others, must depend on the labor of Others.
The science OF cooking IS an exact science. as
exact chemistry mathematics music or
delicate manipulation, quIckness of sense correct
ness of taste, soundness OF judgment and ripe eX-
1perence. How many of these qualities one can ex-
pect 30 lind iii the foreign lmportatons of servants.
our readers very We'll know. How many of them
are found LET tho mutitudes of housekeepers who
nave trained one greenhorn after another for
he last thirty years testify 1t is not to he expected
{ that the class OF emigrants who come to for
work should know much about cooking. And as we
are to great extent dependent them for do
nestle help, they must learn to cook If at all,
after they come TO this country and they will and
do learn at our expense Ii the expense were only
that of money, 1t would be comparatively triling.
but IT is of comfort, of health often OF lite tsefof
that which once lost cannot be regaIned.
The simple and easy solution OF the whole ones
! tion lies in the establishment and multiplication
OF cooking schools. Before shall have these IN
numbers the minds of our women must be awak-
ened to the vital necessity of concerted movement
IN this matter. IL Is not difficult thing TO obtain
graduates from Normal schools ll the positions Of
teachers; we have graduates from art schools
classical schools schools OF design, of telegraphy
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
others we nave begun IN social life with The
most far-away needs, and now begin to ap
preach those nearer and nearest. Astrology was
me hiSI socalled science, and IN studying this
astronomy was born. The science of chemistry had
its origin IN the search Tor tine philosophers stone
which would transmute everything II touched into
gold. We have now the most beautiful china and
gass and silver services to from. Is il not
quite time that the food served i'm these dishes
should be as fine in quality high in art, as eX-
guste IN preparations as faultless IN taste, the
ing and schools of art cooking with regular courses
aud diploma at the end ri the last Those
I and rcmunerattve situations.
If several ladies IN any city village would rnite
4 IN htung mp kitchen. hiring a Chef and sending
their own servants or children "a pupls, the move
ment might be pcgun. They could contract with
their servants to remain with them at certain
tmton received at the cooking school. Many
housckecpers would be glad 10 be pupiis and have
their children pupils also When servant girls are
I"',1o 20 icailLc thal certain employment ana IN
creased pay sure TO those who been through
course OF culinary instruction. they will be eager
10 aFAll themselves OF II. lnth that time. and
without the cooperation of their employers. they
VIII take as ltle interest IN the SuO CT possible
lien Mr. Blot gave lessons in cookery some years
ago. Brooklyn gentleman sent his COOK To take the
conrsr, paying her tuition which $50. lie said
that IN the next i've years she saved him that $50
dozen tlmcs over. She learned 20 ccononlze every
thing. to make saVory dishes from plain materials
90 cook IN the best and easiest manner and 10 get
mp her dinners IN style and taste without waste OF
material ana without great expense.
Here "a work an winch the fields are white for
The harvest Miss CoIson in New-Iork and Miss
Parloa M Boston are pioneers IN the work aud arc
doing an immense amount OF good. Their example
should be followed ia every city aud large town till
cooking schools are common as district schools
tlil the woman who cannot cook will be as uncom-
mon as the woman who cannot read aud write and
spell We have abolished slavery, We are irving 10
abolish lntemperanCc, cruelty To children and
cruelty To animals; let MS abolish bad cooking
aud mausurate she reign OF wholesomelN prepared.
1 1000. mus shall we effectively pave the way for
the long expected millennium.