The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-11-10
HOUSEKEEPERS' LEAGUE NOW
TEACHES COOKING.
Miss Morgan's Work with Her Chinese
and japanese Pupils-Lades and
Children Also Instructed.

Il am going to show you this after
noon how to make orange cream, and
how to bake macaroni and cheese, to
cook a steak properly and to make
consomme," said Miss Morgan when her
audience of thirteen Celestials gather
ed round the tables at the Cooking
School yeste rday.
The young woman had an inter-
esting time with her pupils at
tentive end anxious to learn as
they were They sat or stood
around semi-circle of kitchen
table, with stove at one end. where
Miss Morgan presided. Some of them
had note books, like college students
at lecture course, and they carefully
recorded the main points of instruction
given them. AS they are all employees
of local hOusekeepers, the effect of their
newly acquired learning must be i'm
mediate and perhaps even last night
some households had the benefit of what
was taught between l and o'clock.
The orange cream came first and with
the help of some of the pupils it was
soon set away in moulds to solidify,
while the consomme was being gotten
ready.
Then came the macaroni and cheese,
a quarter of a pound of macaron dump
ed into boiling water with a little salt
and lump of cheese to be grated. One
Celestial who had used a crater before
volunteered to prepare the cheese. He
was told to wash his hands first and
| the other twelve grinned as he Obeyed
| The steak was a triumph of culinary
i art. Miss Morgan gave her pupils a
! little lecture on the mistakes often
| made in preparing this most ready of
| all meats-the frying" that spoils It,
| the pricking that let's out the juice, the
| too slow heating that does the same
and the letting it wait after the cook
| ing, which destroys the pink of perfec-
| ton. The steak was brought forward
| duly trimmed and then thrown into a
| smoking hot and dry frying pan, turned
| over and round and round and in a few
minutes it was on a dish, looking good
| enough to palliate the 'gastronomic in
sufficiency" of the most eXacting cpl
cure in Bohemia.
| One Celestial voiced an objection. 81
| no cook steaks that way" he said. A
| discussion and explanations followed
| and it was finally decided by the OBJ
! jector and the others that the meth cd
| illustrated had advantages-too compli-
Gated for description in these columns.
The afternoons lessons ended with
the completion of the macarOni and
cheese, and the pupils disposed of the
former in short order. They left with
: pockets full of notes and heads full OF
new ideas, which will be put in practice
at once in a dozen Honolulu homes. Ir
fact scientific cooking is to have a
boom all over the city and If there are
blunders made and if dishes fearfully
and wonderfully made threaten dyspep-
: sia and nightmare, housekeepers must
be indulgent and remember that it is
!, all for the best in the end. Practice
will make the cooks perfect
The Chinese class is by no means the
only one Miss Morgan is teaching. She
has japanese on Tuesdays and Fridays
ladies on Wednesday afternoons and
= school girls on Saturday mornings, The
ladies' class is principally for instruc-
tion in the art of making deliCacies,
t such as amateurs often attempt with al
} most deadly effect.
II find the Chinese and Japanese pu.
: pills very apt" said Miss Morgan. zone
= reason for this probably is that they
are very anxious to learn, most of tnen
coming here on their own account II
is wonderful how much they seem able
q to carry in their heads and don't think
any of them lose much of the lesson
Some are sent here by their employers
and already I have been told by house
! keepers that they have seen good re-
suits from the teaching done"