The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-06
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TEACH HER TO COOK.
SUGGESTIONS ABOUT TRAINING THE
YOUNG DAUGHTER.

Utilize the Desire to make Bread" That
Nearly Every Girl Has by Instructing
Her I'm the Art Of Plain COoking-MAny
Things That Girls VIII Readily Learn.
Every child, especially every girl, has an
instructive desire to make and NEEDLE
wherever any culinary processes are going
on, and every mother and every kitchen
maid are accustomed to give the little one
bit of dough when mixing bread or cake,
and OF letting her bake her own little con
lection in a saucer 1t is a wise mother
who takes advantage of this natural in
clination in girl TO make her a cook be-
times, and to turn the taste and tendency
20 account in the family
To be a good cook, to be a good nurse, to
be a good needle woman are the three
things absolutely essential 60 the happi-
ness, and to the continuance in happiness,
of the great majority of all women, what
ever more it may be given them TO be; and
If the things leading TO such desired pro-
ficiency are taught in season there will be
80 much more time left for the other things
that invite after the foundation of the
positively necessary is laid.
The business can be begun by letting a
child Of or 10, for example, make a bowl
of Cruel, overseeing its preparation so care
fully that there can be no mistake made.
and that the consumer of the Cruel can
praise it so sincerely that her ambition will
be fired for all the future, 80 far as Cruel is
concerned, to make it perfectly She will
put a quart of water in the saucepan over
good fire, and then wet tablespoonful
of oatmeal in a little cold water and stir
IL smooth as the smoothest paste, and when
the water boils she will pour the paste into
the saucepan, stirring IL all the time, when
half done adding a tablespoonful of salt.
boiling half hour, and straining through
fine wire strainer, when, if it has not
scorched, the invalid will have fastidious
appetite who'is not pleased with it.
SOUPS FIRST, THEN BREAD.
Indeed, many well people find it an agree
able and satisfying dish; and we have
known Of a housekeeper In distress for
soup, serving this oatmeal Cruel, well salt
ed, and with some celery tops thrown into
the tureen as it came to the table. for the
sake OF appearances, and experiencing the
delight Of one who has made a new dis
covery at the relish with which her guests
disposed Of her white soup.
complished in this simplest Cruel to which
learning in later years pa1ada and the
more complicated sorts can be added, her
attention can be turned to bread, that one
most necessary thing in the support of
civilized life; and her initial step in the
process can be the concoction of some cream
Of tartar biscuit, in which she will be shown
how to rub piece Of butter the size Of an
4v.Nr, e a.. IN -
Jumps, adding then a teaspoonful of salt
and two heaping teaspoonfuls of cream of
tartar, stirred in well, then wetting it with
pint OF cold water in which a heaping
teaspoonful Of soda has been dissolved.
When well mixed pour it out on the
board into enough -four to let it be nodded
smooth, rolled to a surface half inch thick
and the biscuits cut out with a tumbler, il
there is no biscuit cutter, and baked in a
well creased pan. When her biscuits have
been admired, as they ought TO be, she can
proceed to bread. Here the question Of
yeast complicates matters at the outset;
but as yeast is now so easily obtained at
the bakers, and in the compressed form,
we will assume that she has it on hand,
and If she has TO learn to prepare it that
exciting business can come afterward.
II now she scalds a half pint of milk
and adds it to gill of water in which
quarter Of yeast cake has been dissolved,
together with a teaspoonful of salt and
another of butter, and stirs all that into a
quart Of flour, turns it out and kneads it
till her little arms are tired, and another
stronger person must finish the half hours |
kneading for her, and then puts it into a /
pan, and cuts a transverse slit in the top |
of the mass, and leaves it to rise over
night, she will have completed the first |
chapter Of her work