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loaf of good bread than many think. There are few really good cooks.
Young women think that it is menial to cook and do other kinds of
housework; and for this reason, many girls who marry and have the
care of families have little idea of the duties devolving upon a wife
and mother.
No Mean Science
Cooking is no mean science and it is one of the most essential
in practical life. It is a science that all women should learn, and it
should be taught in a way to benefit the poorer classes. To make food
appetizing and at the same time simple and nourishing, requires skill;
but it can be done. Cooks should know how to prepare simple food
in a simple and healthful manner, and so that it will be found more
palatable, as well as more wholesome, because of its simplicity.
Every woman who is at the head of a family and yet does not
understand the art of healthful cookery should determine to learn that
which is so essential to the well-being of her household. In many
places hygienic cooking schools afford opportunity for instruction in
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this line. She who has not the help of such facilities should put herself
under the instruction of some good cook, and persevere in her efforts
for improvement until she is mistress of the culinary art.
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Cooking A Most Valuable Art Because So Closely Connected
with Life—817
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Study Economy
386. In every line of cooking the question that should be considered
is, “How shall the food be prepared in the most natural and inexpensive
manner?” And there should be careful study that the fragments of food
left over from the table be not wasted. Study how, that in some way
these fragments of food shall not be lost. This skill, economy, and
tact is a fortune. In the warmer parts of the season, prepare less food.
Use more dry substance. There are many poor families, who, although
they have scarcely enough to eat, can often be enlightened as to why
they are poor; there are so many jots and tittles wasted.—
Manuscript
3, 1897