The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-09
COOKERY ART
EXEMPLIF|ED.
Better Foods Better Homes
Week Began Today in
Festival Hall
LARGE AUDIENCE
GREETS MISS HANKO
Unusually Fine Course of Lecture De
monstrations Being Put On - Lee
lures Begin at o 'clock-Program
for Tomorrow Session.


bfdttleDOf0 housewives are highly
pleased with the arrangements made
by The Reformer for what promises
to be the most splendid school of
housekeeping and cookery methods
ever enjoyed in this town. The Better
Foods Better Homes course was intro
dueed auspieiously in Festival hall tins
afternoon hy Emma Hanko. the lee
turer in charge. The audience was
large and was composed of represen-
tative class of Brattleboro housewives
If this course of cookery receives the
patronage it deserves, there win he no
empty seats in Festival hall any at
ternoon this week
Lecturer Is an Artist.
Miss Hanko is graduate of Pratt
Institute and is certainly an artist in
| her line of work She began ut the
| very foundation of things culinary and
although much She told her hearers
was familiar TO them as experienced
housekeepers and cooks, She enpha-
sized and brought out the Importance
of these simple rules in regard to food
aud the functions of food in building
| up the body and maintaining health.
in such a way as to interest and i'm
| press everyone present. She also su9-
gested number Of new ideas that
were valuable to the women who
made up her interested class; IDEAS ex-
ltremely useful and practical in the
preparation Of nourisiing and cnjoy
able meals for the average family She
spoke Of home making rs 4 business
| OF tremendous Importance and showed
| clearly how much depends upon the
food people eat She gave MS the rea-
son for eating, - We mist furnish our
bodies with tissue building material
land repair waste. She defined the
five clements Of food in an extremely
practical and interesting manner ans
gave the use of each. She gave three
reasons for cooking FIRST. to improve
the attractiveness Of foods, thereby
making them moro digestible; second
TO put them into a form into which
our bodies can best use them; third
to DESTROY any harmful organism thai
that might be found IN uncooked food
The entire lecture as we'll as thu
lcookery demonstration which followed
it were characterized by remarkable
practicabilitv and clearness of though
and frequently called forth hearty ap
plause. She spoke aud worked Will
assuredness and authority as Of on
fully informed and experienced, am
everything she did and said was highl,
complimented. Miss Hanko S first au
dience at The Reformer Home Econ
omics School was not only a compli
ment to her and the management o
. the school. but to the women of Brat
! Itleboro 1t certainly speaks well fo
the progressive spirit of the house
: wives of this town that so large
number turned out the first afternoo
. Ito hear Miss Hanko. Almost ever
6 class of housekeeper and cook i'll Brat
i tleboro was represented and som
I young women who are not housekeeI
e ers, but some day expect to be, wer
seen at the school. A number of tn
; leading club women of Brattlebor
/ who have done much to arouse worl
{. ing interest in better housekeepin
e methods were in attendance today an
}, depressed unqualified approval of Mi:
|. 1anko and her work.
Attractive Dishes Served
Miss ,Hanko made a delicate whit
cake which was as economical as
was delicious. She made a fine omel,
r. and delicious salad and mayor
naise salad dressing which created
sensation because no olive oil W;
4 used
j. The second of Miss Hanko 5 Ieetur
a demonstrations tomorrow will de
If with the very important subject
l. Food Standards, and every housekeep
p lin Brattleboro should hear this lie
ID ture. 1t has been pronounced by maj
lg who have heard it as 4 most helpf
it treatment of this vital subject, IA
is Miss Hanko has had many requests f
st it in printed form. Her second me-
Ie will consist of chicken roasted in t
ms fireless cooker, some Very dehcio
az crullers for Thanksgiving, and al
lie some suggestions for Thanksgivi
p tarts and pies. She will make Ba
ed bury tarts, which are as good or b.
ld ter than minee pie and some favor