El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-16
OFTEN
MADEiPLEA5URE
A Dull Work Can be Trans
formed into One of Inter
est, Says Our Expert.

Much interest has been attracted by
the announcement that Mrs. Edna J.
Evans. a noted Pacific coast expert is
TO conduct cooking school for The
Herald i'm FL Paso during the week Of
April $40, inclusive. Mrs. Evans viii
conduct the school in the banquet room
I'm Hotel PasO del Norte and it viii be
free to every woman in FL PasO-
Writing The Herald from Los Ange-
les, she says she will come TO II PasO
with many new ideas for getting the
best results in the kitchen, as she has
been making recent studies with par
ticular reference TO utilizing foods to
reduce the cost Of living.
Cooking is sometimes a pleasure
she writes. And sometimes il is
dull Sometimes il is a burden and
sometimes it is a martyrdom. SoSe-
times the burden of it and the duty Of
it are Synonymous.
I'VE have American and foreign
cooking. with the difference between
them merely the proper use OF cOndi-
ments and seasOninss.
THE average American house wife
considers cooking one of the necessary
evils OF existence. She fails to make
II one OF the pleasures and If follows
often that foods are too hastily pre-
pared and too hastily eaten
Secret OF Success.
The secret of good cooking is the
proper combination Of ingredients and
the proper variation and selection of
provisions. together with the proper
preparation and cooking OF foods
Many housewives know little OF
meats, except that there are chicken,
turkey beef. veal. pork and mutton,
while their modes Of cooking are usu-
ally confined 10 frying, baking and
stewing. with occasional boiling
They know nothing of the delicate
flavor impaired by brOilinE
THE lack OF knowledge Of funda-
mentals of cooking and Of food values
brings about a waste which is largely
responsible for what is known as the
high cost Of living
1T is a trite. but a true saying that
French family can live easily on
what an American family WASTES.
Waste i'm preparation is the mildest
form of waste.
1T is the waste consequent upon lack
of knowledge Of food values that is
doubly expensive. for IL not only wastes
the food but il eNhausts the systems OF
those who try to assimilate it.
Bad Meals Cause Illness.
ct is well recognized fact that i'll
ness in Americans arises often from two
food and improper
methods Of eating.
study Of food values have long been
followed in European coutries. where it
has been one Of the essentials in wom-
ems education, and the United States is +
now awakening 10 the fact that the
preparation of foods is something more I
than necessary evil
The old cooking school classes in the /
public schools have been elevated 10
courses in domestic science, and what I
formerly was considered drudgery is Z
now being raised TO an art and digni- I
fled as q science
Just as a foretaste Of the knowledge I
she VIII disseminate at the cooking [
school, Mrs Evans yesterday advanced
a few Of her best recipes.
Here is one for fig putting which 7
ought TO interest all housewives
Useful Recipes.
One-half pound dried figs, two cup
fuls bread crumbs one cupful chopped /
suet one cupfUl brown sugar. three I
eggs, oue-half cupful flour. one-half I
cupful milk, nutmeg to taste. Nix in
gradients well, adding eggs last Boil I
four hours in a double boiler.