Cooking Schools
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Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 119
Those who can avail themselves of the advantages of properly
conducted hygienic cooking-schools, will find it a great benefit, both
in their own practice and in teaching others.
Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 292
To cook well, to place wholesome food upon the table in an inviting
manner, requires intelligence and experience. The one who prepares
the food that is to be placed in the stomach, to be converted into blood
to nourish the system, occupies a most important and elevated position.
The position of copyist, dressmaker or music teacher cannot equal in
importance that of the cook.
Education, 216
Many of the branches of study that consume the student’s time are
not essential to usefulness or happiness; but it is essential for every
youth to have a thorough acquaintance with every-day duties. If need
be, a young woman can dispense with a knowledge of French and
algebra, or even of the piano; but it is indispensable that she learn to
make good bread, to fashion neatly-fitting garments, and to perform
efficiently the many duties that pertain to home-making.
To the health and happiness of the whole family nothing is more
vital than skill and intelligence on the part of the cook. By ill-prepared,
unwholesome food she may hinder and even ruin both the adult’s
usefulness and the child’s development. Or by providing food adapted
to the needs of the body, and at the same time inviting and palatable,
she can accomplish as much in the right as otherwise she accomplishes
in the wrong direction. So, in many ways, life’s happiness is bound up
with faithfulness in common duties.
Since both men and women have a part in homemaking, boys as
well as girls should gain a knowledge of household duties. To make
a bed and put a room in order, to wash dishes, to prepare a meal, to
wash and repair his own clothing is a training that need not make any
boy less manly; it will make him happier and more useful.