Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1885-02-12
Cookery as Il Home Art,


A writer in recent English paper
complains that, with the general adj
vance in the useful arts, that OF cook
cry has remained in the hands of caro-.
less and unSkillcl workers, almost
entirely undeveloped. "lf il were not
So he says, "they would not have
left an art so important SO cntirely V to
traditionary teaching, would have
developed it in way they have not
done; and would have combined to
secure pleasant meals in way they
carefully avoid" A consideration of
this matter recalls some recent dis
cussions Of the questions of combina-
ton and cooperation, which have
thus far failed to give any practical
solution of this complex problem.
Until some more cilcctual means OF
general advancement in the knowledge
and practice of cookery can be devils
ed, the matter seems to .Cst, rs it has
for ages past, solely in the hands OF
the house wife, and upon her comes
the wcighty responsibility OF prepar-
ing the daily food, on which the health,
happiness and usefulness of her family
so largely depend. In the knowledge
which is necessary to an intelligent
and easy handling of the matter
either in the way of direction or act
nal work, the American housewife is
sadly deficient, often leaving the pre-
paration of food entirely to an un-
trained and unrcasOning servant, and
more often doing it herself with an
irnoranc" and lack of interest which
make it the most irksomc drudgcry.
There is more than grain of truth in
the remark Of German physician
that American women never think Of
dinner until half IN hour before it is
time to eat it, and then they have
something fried. There arc thousands
of intelligent women who are willing
to devote u large part of their time to
some branch of art study in which
they can never hope to become any
| thing more than imitatOrs or common
/ place amateurs, who regard the
practice of cookery as n mental en-
| plOvment, instead OF y fine art which
is worthy Of careful and intelligent
study ,-.-,. ,.,...u
y am porn lor Soilicth'nS pe'''''
uiSGaihluliy asserts lhe am n'io.t'o"a .,l' "
tHe incompetent ""iiH" ""p' ..io SUI
for something better than the drudg-
cry Oh ui'hWa'hihS anu sll'lI"r sll'lI"r i''rrc'S
mcGhanical WORK which c"l .y,I Tc Io1o' Io
uhucr u'Icr'lo"' Wy an "''HN!''o" w
mesuc, fot SoinrlmlnE .,E oet'Gr, Ij n,IG'
IMAM 'nt routine ''lc'"VuN 'nu ''"u'-
t,ohS without lc"So" N"'ei NAM ~
the sum Oh many houScM''e GUM m
ary euuca''1h' put tnr "lIe anu en-, .,
iiTn'ehcu Ie'G'oPcihtnv vi "n M ~
whlch, III an inc centuries past mas
scarcely advance" ocyonu thc pnlo
gaStrohoniic ncccSaI'IGs i.,, U, 'aoe % 'n"' ',
must eat 10 lNe' Wn'cu mas 'lo' Wv
outgro"h many Vi 'io 'h'sN'Nve VI ~
earnest experiments ana WHICH holu,
poSSlDl!lteS lor physicai grown "nI l',
wen prlnS without without Mn.oL 'i nui a'',ni anI
more h"riloh,ouS iio'"' "iiu iieht''
grown arc wel'-hiSll l.liPossIple, ol'o"s
Ielu "herc hhs woman ma, peIo'ite .I 1'.',
royal Deilclac'tesN, nI' nIiy " t''o low o'
VINO hiaNe up tlc l't''c h'hHuo''' vi nv
home' put 10 llnnN S't ~ NV III t"''
growing aru ,uo'''--i''nl,E .,,,I, mo'rr'
ana 'his hnow.o"So n, rs Nv. u''a.ui' .'I j., "
attaln' ihought' Ihtcli'SchcT anu III
tercst VIII solVo many Proolyils P',iI ll Hno
aclieVe many resuils "n'c'i WIN oilnSy
thelr own eNcccu ny slr"' 70" H.uI'
rewards "ithout SuSPieion vi "'uu
cry or ueSrauntloh. NI'n VIZ, 'no new nG" !.
iouhu khowieuSe ol cn,'so ,,, anu cl'oo' '''...
OF reason anu Illness wh'Gu 5!o y soncis
interest IN thls "rt WI VII uiiuse' Unjust WI II
come recognition oi thls Necessity y
: pure ar OF cleanliness anu lhcIh
ou' ana Oh improved anu coh''rIo'a pn.
appllences Tor kilcheh work' L Iur
haps, even' inc modern ParloI' WIN
!, its confused and liI-aSSosteu uecora
, tloAS' ana ltS useleSSneSS LOT ho',cs @
family comfort VIII occVllo vi IGs
: Importance tnah DrlSh'' CREAMY
! woll-appolhteu N'tcneh' "nclo ttI
housewife, no sue rich or Poor' WI
= not llhu IL punishment 10 sPchu 'il
, time necessary LOT tue Wlso ulSGre'iou iC,
or even manual WORK re9uireu' IN
woman who, because she uoes not nk
houScwork, remains IN wlliiuI igho
0 rance OF the truth that upon thc uiet
: a people its health, It's character ant
6 its power Tor usefulness an
attainment also wholly de
: pend, Is not III TO assume IN
Q responsibilities ef housewife /
o replying to some poetic masculin
3 yearnings suggested by a remark q
DR.. johnson, made IN the days whe
It the classic tongue was IN hIgner iavo
II than it is at present, TO the eiect Una
;. man would rather see good Dime
on his table than have his wife ,spea
/, Greek, witty woman poetically eX
y presses the belief that, If such Wi
s fancies were to become iacts, I'll
world would be full of starved brute
= making love to tired cooks"
% But to know the properties and use
o of different kinds of food, and tt
best methods of cooking to obtai
W nutriment for brain, bone and muscl,
~ will add pleasure and interest to I'll
manual labor, and, at the same tim
" make it less complicated and tiresom
10 1t is hap-hazard fashion of taklr
e up the duties Oh ualiy lile' tno uo,I II,
N what she must and shirking what ST
i can, that maNes ' tme ii'G 5,a"r, -, many ~
houso-ihother 1no ., ions, Sae" paeSoi, w. s"'
10 barren Oh acquisition ioi i'oi'0'' VI
ii Dp0lilcl0l results IOr OtntTS.