Healthful Cookery
217
Testimonies for the Church 2:373
We can have a variety of good, wholesome food, cooked in a
healthful manner, so that it can be made palatable to all. And if you,
my sisters, do not know how to cook, I advise you to learn. It is of vital
importance to you to know how to cook. There are more souls lost
from poor cooking than you have any idea of. It produces sickness,
disease, and bad tempers; the system becomes deranged, and heavenly
things can not be discerned. There is more religion in a loaf of good
bread than many of you think. There is more religion in good cooking
than you have any idea of. We want you to learn what good religion
is, and to carry it out in your families. When I have been from home
sometimes, I have known that the bread upon the table, and the food
generally, would hurt me; but I would be obliged to eat a little to
sustain life. It is a sin in the sight of Heaven to have such food. I have
suffered for want of proper food.
Unpublished Testimonies, January 11, 1897 (Healthful Living,
80.1)
Great care should be taken when the change is made from a flesh-
meat to a vegetarian diet, to supply the table with wisely-prepared,
well-cooked articles of food.
Unpublished Testimonies, February 14, 1884 (Healthful Living,
97.5)
I know that with care and skill, dishes could be prepared to take
the place of meat. But if the main dependence of the cook is meat, she
will encourage meat eating, and the depraved appetite will frame every
excuse for this kind of diet.
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Unpublished Testimonies, December 20, 1896 (Healthful Living,
139)
The proper cooking of food is a most essential requirement. Some-
thing must be prepared to take the place of meat, and so well prepared
that meat will not be desired.