The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-10-25

; A broad work table built around thre,
sides of square is furnished with {
gas plate for each girl, with drawer,
beneath the table containing all thu
utensils needed for ordinary cookinf
and small bins for -four and sugar
Across one side of the room are bull
in cases for the wholesale supplies
One end of the room has been left
to be furnished as soon As the board
can afford 1t, as an-up-to-date dining
room, where the girls will be taught
to properly lay the table and serve
as well as cook meal. Here they
can entertain their parents and the
school board with exhibitions of their
skill in the culinary art.
The equipment of this room is aided
by those who are competant to Judge,
to be superior to that of the similar
equipment Of the Chicago, the Mil
waukee or the indianapolis public
schools.
A reporter visiting one of the
classes of Miss Ethel Stewart, the
new teacher of domestic science, yes
terday found the pupils listening to a
scientific talk on the potato, its value
as food, it's chemical parts, why
some people should eat potatoes and
why others should not and why but
ter or milk or cream should he added
to potatoes
After chemical experiment by
means of which the presence of starch
may be detected in any food, the
class was told to wash medium sized
potatoes and when the oven had
reached ESQ degrees farenheit, to put
them in to bake after which they
were to prepare them as potatoes
on the half she'll" While the baking
was going on the girls copied from
the blackboard into their note books,
the notes on the lecture which had
just been given them. A review of the
notes the teacher said, is had about
once a month.
The reporter learned, during this
intermission, that lessons in cooking
the following articles could be given
during the year. Cerials, fruits, po-
tatoes chocolate, batters, and dough
including popovers, pancakes, baking
powder biscuits and bread, cookies,
plain cake, eggs, macaroni and cheese
plain meats, invalid cooking, plain
salads and simple frozen deserts.
During the entire course of lessons
Miss Stewart aims to devote more
time to the food principle side of the
work rather than to the method of
cooking, believing if the former is
thoroughly taught the pupils will be
able to cook the various varieties
without further demonstration.
The course for the second year
class for the year Is as follows: can
ming and preserving of fruits, corn,
cabbage, cream sauces, mullins, fritz
tiers, pie, meats, omelettes, sponge
cake, coffee and tea, souffles fish, pud-
dings, short cake, cream puffs. salads
and frozen deserts. Sometime in jan
uary the class will be given dinner
and in May they will give a luncheon.
The lectures given the second year
classes are much more scientific than
those given to the beginners and
knowledge of chemistry is absolutely
essential to the work of the second
year.
BY the time the reporter had made
these notes and the lecture for the
day had BEEN copied into the note
books, one Of the bright pupils who
had been testing. the potatoes in the
oven, announced that the smallest
ones were done and the owners came |
forward and each girl took her potato |
to her place at the table where she |
dexteriously cut off the top, scouped
out the inside and after whisking 1t
briskly until it was fuggy mass anl
seasoned 1t with butter. salt and milk
it was put back into the jacket and
replaced in the oven to brown. The
dishes were then washed out and
hung to dry and when the potatoes
were eaten by the little cooks and
heir aprons hung in place, the model
was ready for another class
But cooking is only half of the
work done by the domestic science
quite as interesting to visit as the
cookery classes. In this work as in
he other, Miss Stewart aims to be
practical above all else and instead
If teaching the different stitches on
Tn elaborate sampler as our grand
mothers did, every lesson is given on
practical. Running, bast-
ng and hemming were taught on tea
owels made from -four sacks which
he children washed and ripped at
lone. In class they drew the threads I