Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-03-09
COOKING CLASSES.
Prospect That Practical Construction in The
Preparation Of Food win be fouschsafed
The Residents Of Grant County.


The Residents Of Grant County.
Correspondence Of The HERALD.
1t hath been said there Is no safer
way of getting into an Englishman' 5
heart than through his stomach and
that cooking is an art no one who has
ever taken the appetizing dishes pre-
pared by a Frenchchef will ever deny
A glance at the amount of food pro-
duets exported from the United States,
to lands beyond the sea, will convince
any one there is no country where food
is of higher grade than is found in our
own; and yet there is no country, of the
general Intelligence of which we boast,
so sadly deficient in the art of prepar-
ing food for the table, which shall be
nutritious, wholesome and also economi-
cal.
Much of the pleasure of travel is less
ened by being obliged to starve Or eat
at the wayside restaurant food, which
has lost most of its virtue, during its
passage through the kitchen to the din
ing hall Many a traveller might with
equal consistency, complain of the lily
prepared meals oftfe farsiiy. when the
raw Irish cook, With no knowledge Of
American articles OF food, or tie proper
method Of combining them into a nutri-
tive diet, places upon the table unsa-
worry dishes, at which the dyspeptic
scowles, and for which madam frames a
partial apology, upon whom then should
the odium Of such state of alfair,srest?
In my opinion American women are at
fault, too many of them thinking it
derogatory to lady to slnow how to
cook we'll. To play The piano for the
husband when returning home, wearied
| from his business, is delightful, but to
make hot rolls for his breakfast is per-
fectly absurd. Too often young ladies'
are taught to disdain and regard with
contempt that part of their education,
upon which the health, comfort and
good temper of a family depend and
| in female seminaries of wide renowp,
the art of cookery is hardly known, and
| the young ladies subsist upon crude in
| digestible messes from the culinary
department. Happily for Americans
we are a progressive nation, and when
convinced of error we try to right our
selves, and the feeling is becoming prev
alent, that an education which units a
young lady for the duties and response
bllities of home life, is not education
but degeneration, hencecooking schools
are being organized in our larger cities
and those OF Mrs. Golson. an English
! lady of New York, have been largely
patronized. Similar teaching has been
recently given in Chicago, IN the form
of lectures with practical illustrations,
4 making the art OF cookery to rank with
other accomplishments. Miss Emily
Sutton, of Bloomington, Il pupil OF
Monsieur Blanchett and Il graduate OF
the South Kensington, school of Cook
-ery, England, has consented TO make a
partial tour through Grant county, and
give the citizens of our larger villages,
the experience of her five years eXper-
icrce in lccturing in England, analysing
food products, giving their chemical
properties and different methods OF
combining their Ingredients, ana the
best manner of preparing them for the
end they have TO serve. IN making us
healthy, wealthy and wise, for there is
no Joking in the assertion, that a man S
moral nature is often reached through
his stomach, and that many men arc
driven from their homes, BY unwholc-
some food served in an unattentiye
manner The Warehouses of Lornc
was sufficiently instructed in cookery to
appear at the examinations Of the South
Kensington school, and bestowed the
diplomas upon the graduating class, OF
which Miss Sutton was member, and
it would seem ladies Of America would
patronize the lectures. inparting the
knowledge acquired on a course of study
at this school sc noted throughout Eng
land. Whether the instruction Miss
Sutton proposes to give, win be in the
form of lectures, or a coarse Of practica
lessons is not yet determined, but viii Rt
hereafter announced through the col.
umns Of this paper, also terms for the
course and time of commencement.
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