New-York tribune., 1885-01-25
TIE WORKINGMANS DINNER.

TEACHING MS CHILDREN HOW TO COOK 1T.
| TO cook well, to serve dish daintily, Ia
manage kitchen with true economy. and 10 buy for the
table a. TO reconcile the conflicting interests Of palate
and purse ARE arts Of direct material Importance all
classes. Cooking schools. generally speaking. are no
novelty nowadays; but tho particular system which
Miss Huntington Of tho Wilson Mission is bringing into
notice 4, OF especial interest.
The pupils In the Cooking Garden are not ladies of
high social station, who do expect practise its
precops nor professional cooks whose earnings to be
enhanced by special training They mostly children
Of worngnen ten or twelve years OF shop girls
who pay no tuition fee and who expect to their skill
In hr!r homes The methods employed involve ap
pcaton OF an idea which Miss Huntington first put into
practice In teaching other kinds Of housework ia her
Kitchen Garden" eight ten years ago.
The Kitchen Garden " has been introduced into y
score or more OF large cities by people engaged In chart
table enterprises and book concerning It has been
published 1t included In Its attendance upon
thetahle and door, setting dinner table. lighting Il
CRATE fire, sweeping dustns-Ill OF a holsemaids
duties, In fact-anl other branches Of domestic
service. but did not deal with cookery. New-York
laly of wealth and bcueyolence persuaded Miss Hun
tinytOn nearly year ago. to make speciality OF cook
cry In her system, preparing code OF songs
expressly for It, ana establishing classes. Now
about l1O girls most OF them under fourteen years OF
are receiving free weekly lessons from teachers
trained In the Cooking Garden" Tho lady already
ferrcd to pays most OF the expense but some OF tho
classes are maintained by the New York Cooking school,
or its friends Three classes Of dozen members each
meet Mt the Wilson Mission. st. Marks place and
nue 4 the Others In other parts OF the city.
TRIBUNE reporter witnessed Of these lessons
Gently To the strains OF spirited march, performed
piano twelve little girls filed into the schooroom and
seated themselves at long, low tables. which
ranged bowls pla;ters and cooking utensils The chill
drcn were plainly dressed and most OF them wero evil
IDENTITY Oi German parentage. After two or three songs
including one on the 10 beat the class In unison
read from the blackboard the bill OF fare: Scrambled
poachod eggs. baked eggs and onelete Then the
directions Tor preparing each OF these dishes were sim
ary read and repeated and the children closely
questioned to tx the order Of work in their minds.
short lecture on the given, and some further
specific suggestions and explanations were made orally,
aud then the twelve were divided into groups OF
aproned teacher underooto prepare one OF the dishes
SOOn with all the eagernesshat characterized play
at Tag" or" Here wo go round the barberry bush'
the children were Immersed In their several tasks Some
whipping eggs Others knet before the stove WITH
slices OF bread on their tOasng still others
scholar took her turn the work OF her group and at
her leisure closely watched the work done by the other
groups As lar as possible everything was elt IOr tno
children themselves to do but the teachers were watch
full ready To come 10 the rescue, an constantly giving
hints The deftness with which the little hands separated
the whites from the yoks Of the eggs and folded An o
ectte was delightful Finally, when the dishes we're
cooled and class required to inspect them
critically, and pass opinions on their appearance and
after eating them up, the children sang more songs,
and marched out again to lively music.
potatoes prepared IN four different ways, toast
eggs. roast beef. steak. broiled or fried
bread rolls biscuit fish In different styles several kind:
OF vegetables aud soups oatmeal porrdgc. boiled ana
entary lessons hints given about MARKETING
Great Is laid economy and tho way TO utilize
crumbs and pre- saoen on ine 70 Sa
ON toast trues and plum pudding but In the second
course 1t deals with something more than radiwents