Learn to Cook
Our sisters often do not know how to cook. To such I would say, I
would go to the very best cook that could be found in the country, and
remain there if necessary for weeks, until I had become mistress of the
art—an intelligent, skillful cook. I would pursue this course if I were
forty years old. It is your duty to know how to cook, and it is your
duty to teach your daughters to cook. When you are teaching them
the art of cookery, you are building around them a barrier that will
preserve them from the folly and vice which they may otherwise be
tempted to engage in. I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but
my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life and
nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most important place among
the helpers in my family.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:370
(1869).
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