The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-07
PIES
ON The SHELF
Mother is Too Busy Pouring Acid In
Mall Boxes These Day. to
Hover Around the
Range.
MEN LEARNING TO COOK
More Male Puplls at Cooking Schools
In England Now Than Ever
Before In His
tory.
[By Ed. l. Keen, London correspon-
dent of the United Press.1

dent of the United Press.1
LONDON, January 7-"They're not
like the pies father used to make" :
/ This paraphrase seems destined to
replace the popular9 household com
ment ON the excellence of mothers
pastry-in England at least. With SO
many Of the womenfolk nowadays out
politically demonstrating, window
smashing, pouring acid In mail-boxes.
and occasionally trying to blow up
cabinet members, Englishmen appar-
emily are awakening to sense OF
their responsibilities in connection
with the problem of domestic econ
omy. Tangible evidence Of this ten
dency is presented In the fact that
cookery schools throughout the coun-
try report a big increase in the num-
Der of male pupils of all classes and
ages. in the past few months.
Although it is true that the new
pupils include many bachelors and
widowers, the cookery school proprie-
tors attribute the sudden masculine
interest in the culinary art largely to
the suffragette campaign. Another
reason is the recent activity of the pc.
lice authorities in enforcing the law
closing restaurants at midnight,
which compels the young man who
wishes to give a quiet feed to his
friends after late theatre-evening
to take them to his own apartments.
In London especially the culinary
colleges are overcrowded, and in
many cases they have had to turn
away eager applicants. AS a rule, the
instructors declare they prefer male
students to female, because, 1t is
averred, they are more apt to infect
originality into the composition of
their products.
II have found that the Engiishman
is as much of sportsman in cook
ing as in anything else" remarked a
leading professional chef to your cor
respondent. after mastering the
rudiments of the art, he very quickly
starts experimenting with ingredi-
ents or proportions Of his own devils
ing. Therein lies the chief difference
between the male an2 the female
amateur cook. The woman usually
follows the very letter of the recipes
in her favorite cookbook. With her,
cooking is science rather than an
art. And she leaves nothing to
chance. But man does not relish such
a sure thing game. There must be
some hazard for him, even in cooking.
Hence, when he feels confident
enough in his own prowess he chucks
his cookbook out the window.
ITO meet the peculiar demands OF
our male pupils we have had to add
special courses to our ordinary cur
riculum. We find 1t difficult, for In
stance, to interest men students in
the preparation OF decorative small
| cakes and o.her light and airy arti-
cles that ordinarily go with afternoon
| tea But, when the class in Welsh
rarebits, devilled kidneys. praised
sweetbreads. or curry sauces Is called
to order. the male members are right
on the job. Also, we receive man,
more suggestions from the men thar
from the women. Everyone who has
ever been outside of England wants
/ 10 learn how to prepare some partic
ularly pleasing dish encountered il