p. 16 | Hardly Practical

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 12, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 31.

Hardly Practical.

A cartoon clipped from a great newspaper is before us. The scene is a modern kitchen with modern range and all necessary utensils. A portly lady is giving instruction in cooking to a company of ten females, old and young, as follows:—

“Lady Cooking Professor—Now, here is a nice little dish, say, for luncheon—pleuveur saute. Procure four plump plovers, take the whites of six new-laid eggs, eight raw truffles—well peeled—a glass of white wine, two cloves, one and a half bay leaves—(Absorbing interest of pupils who have probably to do their housekeeping on about $2.00 a week.)”

And that is about the way with much of such instruction. There are many who need to be taught the art of cooking, many long to be, but their incomes and facilities are limited. The cooking professor who would be appreciated is the one who can take the simple means to be found in the larders, kitchens, and cupboards of the poor, and prepare a fair variety of simple, hygienic dishes at a minimum of expense. For this the most of people still wait.