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fancywork will not provide for the table a well-cooked dinner, prepared
with nicety, so that they will not blush to place it before their most
esteemed friends. Mothers, yours is a sacred work. May God help you
to take it up with His glory in view, and work earnestly, patiently, and
lovingly, for the present and future good of your children, having an
eye single to the glory of God.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:538,
539, 1870
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Irregular Eating and “Picked up” Meals When the Family Are
Alone—284
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Teach the Mysteries of Cooking
395. Do not neglect to teach your children how to cook. In so
doing, you impart to them principles which they must have in their
religious education. In giving your children lessons in physiology,
and teaching them how to cook with simplicity and yet with skill, you
are laying the foundation for the most useful branches of education.
Skill is required to make good light bread. There is religion in good
cooking, and I question the religion of that class who are too ignorant
and too careless to learn to cook....
Poor cookery is slowly wearing away the life energies of thousands.
It is dangerous to health and life to eat at some tables the heavy, sour
bread, and the other food prepared in keeping with it. Mothers, instead
of seeking to give your daughters a musical education, instruct them
in these useful branches which have the closest connection with life
and health. Teach them all the mysteries of cooking. Show them
that this is a part of their education, and essential for them in order
to become Christians. Unless the food is prepared in a wholesome,
palatable manner, it cannot be converted into good blood, to build up
the wasting tissues.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:537, 538, 1870
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An Attempt to Make Sugar Supply the Place of Good Cooking
-527
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Influence of the Table on Temperance Principle—351, 354
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If Digestion Is Taxed, an Investigation Is Needed—445
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Less Cooking, More Natural Foods—466, 546
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