The evening world., 1888-10-12
FOUR GOOD BISCUIT COOKS.
THEY STOOD BEFORE THE CLASS At THE
vANDLwATER SCHOOL.
A Fat Girl Seemed TO Make Mistakes, bat
Her Lot OF Biscuits Was the Best Of
Them Ail-Next Time They VIII Tackle
tue Problem of Jclly-MakinR-They Like
the Prospect Very Much, Too.

LuU rs @@
the Prospect Very Much. Too.
Grammar School No. /. Vandewater street,
ia again in the full tide of its lessons in cook
ing. An EVENING WoRLD reporter dropped
in there to see the children cook.
At 10. Is twenty eight little girls with
tventy-eight little notebooks in their hands
and twenty eight smiles on their mouths filed
in and sat down.
Good morning, girls, " said the teacher.
Good morning. Mrs. Hope" chirped the
girls, rising TO their feet and speaking in JOY
Gus unison.
Then the little girls told all they knew
about alkalis, and made the reporter blush
all over at his dreadful ignorance.
One little miss said something or other had
an "intirmity" for some other thing or
other, but she was caught up right away by q
chipper little lass OF ten years old who said
affinity " with q very crisp articulation.
The subject of the days lesson was tea bis
cult. Mrs. Conkling, the principal. assisted
at the lesson and kept the children well down
to the subject of alkalis when they showed q
disposition to impart alien information.
gentleman ansS Ai Presents asaiS said a,Si'l Mrs. Hope, as a
sprightly young miss arose and got q little
fuddled over =" carbonic " and " .carbolic " in
her answer. She had a long braid of golden
mar, anu tuht beSuuCu " ohsusO jill u Z
Have you the recipe for tea biscuit ?" said
Mrs. Hope.
The teacher then gave some instruction on
tea biscuit and there was q soft, kissing
sound of lead-pencils scurrying over note
books. The children wrote rapidly and
neatly.
Then the quartet of girl cooks for the day
waltzed out to engage in the production of
the seductive vesper biscuit. They were armed
with instruction in their note books. They
cooked by note. They put flour into q tin
can and sifted it into a roomy tin pan.
Then they measured out a teaspoonful of
This recipe is very good. and if the bis
cult are not nice 1t Will be the fault OF the
cooks, ~ said the teacher.
AS the children eat up what is cooked in
the lesson, they all have a personal interest
in the success of the cooking. They also
have an interest not altogether scientific III
the making of grape Jelly and angel cake,
which they do not feel i'll tea biscuit.
The cooks worked SO carefully that they
as one would have supposed.
-Four %spoonfuls of baking powder to a
quart is how many to a pintY'
Two" cried the children, with a tinge of
" If they turn out badly the cook will have
to eat them all herself" said Mrs. Hope.
whereat q fat girl. one of the cooks, quailed
yisibly. The Int girl proceeded to turn the
oNCI W u Ill "bClChL IL Cldbb
broke into a prolonged OH" of disappro-
baton. The fat girl had gone wrong again.
Then she took a little tin cutter and mapped
out the biscuit. -Four girls stood up and said
TREMENDOUSLY:
She had a right to put that in the flour
first"
The fat girl was getting visibly distressed,
though she tried to carry it off with q spas
modic gayetv.
Still the biscuit went on finely. Mrs. Hopes
black jersey had n chepr0n on the left sleeve,
where one of the cooks had impulsively
touched her with n foury hand.
Finally the biscuits were put in the oven,
and the fat girl went dejectedly to wash her
hands and await results.
All the girls would giggle when a biscuit
stuck to the cutter and would say She
hasn't got any flour On"
At IL. 10 the first edition of the biscuit was
out, and a very dainty, light, beautifully
Drowned edition it was. They were the fat
Are they all right ?" asked the reporter
alphabetically, while the fat girl stitfened
Z up to look over the counter with feverish
anxiety.
They are very nice. - said Mrs. Hope, and
the plump cook relaxed into her chair and q
!, smile. The reporter tasted one. 1t was de-
i licious.
Thu lesson was over. Next time they will
make jelly. The cooks on this occasion were
Lizzie Fitzgerald, Amelia Hupel, Katie
Mitchell and Katie Maisch.
The housekeepers, who did the tidying up,
were Lizzie Lyons and Barbara Baum.