The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-02
FIRST SESSION OF
COOKING SCHOOL
IS BIG SUCCESS
Miss MiIIer'S Demonstration in
Domestic Science Course
Draws Large Crowd.
TEMPTING MENU IS
EXPLAINED IN DETAIL
PRIZE AWARDED FOR BEST
RECIPE-ANOTHER DEMON
STRATION TONIGHT.

The Herald's free domestic science
course was begun last evening, when
Miss Anna Virginia Miller presented
before a fine audience in Unity hall her
first demonstrations on scientific cook
cry with gas. Representative women
from the entire town were in the audi
ence. Many of the finest housekeepers
and cooks of the city were there, and
numbers Of others who were fired with
the ambition to place themselves in that
class.
Every woman had armed herself
with a note book and pencil, and
whether or not she had remembered to
bring along a dish and a spoon she had
shown her earnestness by providing
herself with these aids TO her memory.
1 The absence of hats to obstruct the
view was the first thing that struck one
( on entering the hall, and the careful
attention given to the lecturer showed
/ in still another way that the audience
/ had come to be instructed.
Miss Miller. dressed in a plain white
working dress and equipped with ev-
/ erything in the realm Of kitchen COM
/ fort, began her demonstration with
short talk on the use of gas and the
abuse Of the gas range. She told how
/ a gas range might be regulated 10
fine degree for all sorts of cooking and
said, among other things, that the off
/ ference between the gas range and the
coal range was that i'm the first case
| the cook regulated the range, while in
! the second the range regulated the cook
Tempting Menu Prepared.
/ Taking uD her menu in detail Miss
Miller showed Just how each dish was
prepared from the beginning till the
finished product was placed before
/ those to be served. The menu included
/ bTOiled beefsteak, macarOni and ham
au gratin and baking powder biscuit,
| the steak served with fried egg plant
/ Each article was described as present
{ cd, ana reasons given for the purchase
! OF certain cuts of meat. for the ways
of boiling certain vegetables. Tor the
manner OF placing dishes in the oven.
etc.
Many valuable directions were given
lin regard J0 measuring. mixing. turbu-
/ lent boiling versus simmeriuE, as ep-
piled to different kinds Of cooking, care
/ of dry ingredients and numerous other
/ things many Of them known 10 the
Z
! skilled I'm the art. Miss Miller showed
/ just how TO regulate the gas Oval for
various kinds of baking, and demon
/ strated beyond a doubt the absolute
/ economy of gas in cooking
The Utah Gas & Coke company gave
away as souvenirs Detroit Jewell cook
| books. the cook books issued by the
company making the gas ranges which
+ are TO be given away as prizes during
the time Of the Free Herald Cooking
/ School. The audience was greatly IN
/ terested i'm the announcements of the
prizes to be given away by The Herald
and the gas company.
Larger Hall Needed.
Negotiations are already on for
f larger place in which to hold the dem
constructions, as it is almost certain that
the crowds will be too great for Unity
hall before the end of this week.
| Beginning probably with tOmOrroW's
issue. The Herald will publish its ques-
! tons and answers column, but in addi-
ton to this. short timely questions re-
lating to the subjects shown will be an
swered from the platform. The purpose
Of the questions and answers column,
however is a wider one, giving OppOr-
tunity for the asking and answering Of
questions pertaining directly 10 amy de-
partment Of cooking or Of domestic sci
ence in which one may wish infOrma-
ton.
All this information may be had in
the columns of The Herald from day to
day, as the school continues for three
weeks, with four lessons each week.
Before the end of the first weeks dem
onstrations-that is, before Friday
ievening-the essay and the poem which
al 81 rha a-n1-roa
must be in the hands of The Herald
Cooking School The subject of each is
to be on the superior advantages Of
cooking with gas. One range is to be
given by the gas company and one by
The Herald.
The Prize Recipe.
The first prize recipe, for which the
/ author will receive s. tonight. is given
below Out of all those submitted
many Of them of great exceIlence-it
was selected by Miss Miller as being
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