Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-09-20
MYSTERIES OF THE KITCHEN.
Taking Lessons With the Rolling Pin
and the Frying Pan.

and the Frying Pan.
| LADIES WHO GO To THE COOKING sCHoOI.-YOUNG
| MARRIED WOMEN WHO WANT To PLEASE THEIR
HUsBANDs-LITTLE MISSES WHO HAVE AN AM
BTTION To SHINE AS BOUsEKEEPERs--A TALK
| WITH THE LADY IN CHARGE.
ION. it's just jolly! l got my fingers burnt
more than a dozen times. Amt my face red3'
And she elapped both little hands up to her
cheeks and laughed merrily. She was pretty
miss of sixteen or seventeen with big laughing
eyes, cheeks as red as roses, and little fingers
| that looked as if they were designed by nature
| to set off rings to an advantage and bangle a
| teecy fan
''Oh, you Just ought to see me in my big
/ apron that covers me all up, like they
| do at the hair-dressers.' she prattIed
on to her companion as they rode
| up tth street in one horse car Il learned to
! pare potatoes yesterday and was baking bread
to-day. Amt my cheeks red? And Just look
| there at that hOrrid, awful, little blister" and
/ she held dainty little finger up to prove by the
| least of little burns that it was .'OhI awfJllly
| Jolly to cook"
You know got hold of the wrong end of
| the pOker-how was / to know which was the
handle OF the horrd old thing?-or. rather Twas
going to take hold of it when Mrs. - hal
L
| struck it against the stove. The hOrrid old
| thing had no business being there Oh but I'm
! learning to cook. III make YOU some bread all
by myself next time you come to see me. But
it was awfully mean-dont you think so?-in
them to laugh at me to-day. How did know
mustard from- baking POWDER
The pair prattled on. and The STAR man. COM
Ing back down the street little later. noticed
a sign: Cooking School," and under it little
blackboard. upon which was written in chalk
the word "Doughnuts."
In response to The STAR mans touch Of the
bell-knOb. he was ushered into a little front
rarlor. where he found very agreeable lady
Cooking she said. '.yes we teach cooking.
Do you want to learn the rudimentary branches
or the fancy dshes-Or-Oh." she added as the
scribe in IL word gave her to understand that
the bent of his genius was not such as to give
him any hope of attaining eninence in the culli-
nary line-''Or-0h-you Just want?
You are little curious? Oh. yes we teach
cooking" and, giving the scribe seat she ey-
pressed great willingness to introduce him into
the mysteries of the Kitchen
hon do we teach? Oh anybody who
wants to learn We have different classes: there
are few who want to learn cooking as a pro-
feSsiOn. But most of our classes are combOsed
OF fashionable married ladies who have never
learned this important branch of housekeeping
and young ladies just from boarding school
these there are most Of-whOse parents want to
give them general idea OF the nicer branches
of cookery"
us it customary for fashionable Young ladies
to learn cOohing?" asked the scribe
''pn. yes 1t getting so. Young ladies who
never expect to have any cooking to do in their
llVes learn to cook. so that when they are mar
Tied they will have some KNOWLEDGE of bouse-
keeping and can judge of their servants. There
are large number of wealthy and fashionable
young ladies' who come here to learn to cook"
Don't they ever burn their fingers?" sug-
eested the scribe. whose mind kept wandering
off to the little kitchen queen with a burnt fin
ger he had met i'm the cars.
Burns! Yes they are apt to get burnt at
hrst- You just ought to see class of Young
girls who have never tried to cook nor seen any
one at 1t before. Amusing? It's the funniest
thing you ever saw. They make great prenara-
Tons and all that. Some of them can't find the
oven door. They'd put the bread on top of the
stove, and the soup in the oven to boil They
don't know which end of the poker to take
hold OF, and could not open a stove door with
out burning their fingers to save their lives. 1t
takes lots OF practice to get your hand into an
oven without burning it; and then, too these
little misses have such delicate. soft hands that
1t don't take much to scorch them Then
now they DO smut themselves sometimes
It's cOmicdi TO see them But when
their cheeks get red and their hair a little
unused over their fOreheads. Well. I'm afraid
you arn't very susceptible if you wouldn't lose
your heart. Oh no; but you don't see them
You ought to see their perpleXed faces when a
IOt oil vegetables Is put before them to be pre-
pared Tor cooking. They don't know what tn
take hold OF first. | gave young lady some
potatoes to rare. and after walking about the
table once or twice and looking at them from
every side she picked out the longest and slen-
derest she could find, and. picking up the great
carving knife, began to white it Ike boy
would stick. Then meats There is not one
in hundred Tho can tell one cut from another.
or beef from mutton. They would put the roast
IN 4 pot and steak in the oven'
whats the hardest for them to learD?" THE
STAR man asked.
Bake bread. They don't know how to 90
about it. Leave some OF them alone for a min
ute and they would be covered with flour 1t
seems to have sort of affinity tor their faces
Iheir hair and faces are as white as if they had
neen powdered for masquerade. Some of
them seem to like it. Then they make such
mistakes-nOt to mention cooking it on TOD of
the stOve-some of their mistakes are awful
Oh course we watch and never let a mistake 60
very lar One young lady put mustard in the
bread instead of baking powder but of corrse
she did not know the difference. and we dis
covered it at once. But" she added sit don't
take them long to learn, and some of them be-
come capital cooks
~ on say you have some married ladies to
teaC:"
Yes: but they generally know considerable
about PLAIN cooking when they come What
they want generally is to learn fancy cookery
ara to make special dishes. Some of them
want to learn how to bring their husbands home
to dinner In fact. it is tor the benefit of their
husbands that they all come. Connubial happi-
ness often depends upon the wife's cleverness in
pleasing the husbands appetite. Sometimes
tae husband likes some special dish he used to
GET at the club when he was bachelor, and to
Keep him from going to the club after il the
clever wife will learn TO make it. She will sur
Prise hlm. Then he kisses her and gives her
SILK dress. and they will be very happy. the man
never realizing that it is goldfish balls or lob
sier salad that has made him go0d-natured"
s.GUIEI SANDY SPRING.,