New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-08
PUBLIC SCHOOL COOKING
TEA PARTY AT NO. 147-ATTRACTIvE Elk
HIBIT FOR PARIS.
FIFTY-FTvE HUNDRED CHILDREN IN THIRTY DE.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF
DIETARY LAWS

Five graceful little hostesses received at the tea
party at Public School No IA. East Broadway
and Scammel-st., recently The guests the
members of the cooking class and fifteen of the
teachers of the school Cards of invitation each
had been by the largest girl in the
and read
Miss Clara Auerbach at home. in the kitchen.
from until o'clock
Peanut sandwiches. pineapple sherbet cup cake
chocolate and tea served and all made
IN the cooking lesson which preceded entertain
ment. The pineapple which used had been
canned by the class the previous spring. AT
o'clock all who not mattresses or on the Re-
ception Committee Went downstairs. tidied up
and came hack as guests. All the ceremonials of
the more aristocratic functions were scrupulously
observed. because their teacher had told them
they might receive invitations from those in better
circumstances than themselves. and il was a part
of their education know how to conduct them
selves properly all occasions.
The tables were decorated with ferns which were
borrowed from the cIassroons. and few carna-
lions. gift of Of the teachers The chocolate
and poured by of the girls while sew
eral others served the guests The materials for the
feast provided by the teacher. Miss Florence
Willard, who kept busy taking a spoon from
q cup here removing a small arm from tahie
there and giving sly admontons as proper table
manners. These teas a feature OF all the pub
lie school cooking classes.
AS Public School No. 14T is composed entirely of
children of orthodox Jewish families. the kitchen
is kept strictly 'kosher''-that is. In accordance
with the Jewish dietary laws. The pupils are al
lowed to buy all the meat that is used In the
lessons: the dishes divided, one-half being
used for milk and butter mixtures, the other half
for meat and suet. If vegetables cooked at the
time meat they are seasoned with suet
As far as possible the children taught to pre-
! pare every dish with butter or suet or water or
! milk No soap is employed for dishwashing. All
this done because the orthodox Jew does not al
low milk its derivatives or compounds, to be used
ar the same meal with meat, nor can the one be
! served upon a dish that has been used for the
J other.
! Unless these laws respected in the schools
/ which these children attend the lessons would be
no practical benefit the pupils, because their
! parents would allow them have part in them.
Several Of the public school kitchens conducted
| in this
THIRTY SCHOOLS TEACH COOKING.
| Cooking is taught in thirty public school depart
! ments of Manhattan by twenty-one teachers. The
| Importance of the study is emphasized by the fol-
/ lowing quotation which hangs in each of the
/ kitchens:
Cooking means the knowledge or Medea and
/ Gree. and of Calypso and of Helen, and of Re
! knowledge of all herbs and fruit, and bans and
| spices. and of all that is healing and sweet in
| fields and groves and Savory in meats; It means
! carefuness, and inventiveness, and watchfuness
| means the economy of your great-grandmothers
and the science of modern chemists; it means
| much tasting and wasting; il means English
| thorOughness and French and Arabian hosp-
! taty; il means. in fine, that you TO be per-
fectIy always ladies CLoaf givcrs); and. you
are 10 see imperatively, that everybody has some