NOVEL LESSON IN SPEAKER'S KITCHEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 73, 28 March 1938, Page 12

NOVEL LESSON IN SPEAKER'S KITCHEN.

London Hostesses Learn About Cookery

An afternoon in flip Speaker's kit eh en— London's most beautiful private kitchen and one of the most historica —was amonp unusual plans made fo the busy weeks before Easter to enter tain Loudon.

In recent seasons chatelaines of town houses have contributed large sums of charity to see one another's drawing rooms. Mrs. Fitzßoy, wife of the Speaker of the House of Commons, hit on the idea of showing the kitchen where all preparations are made for the Speaker's dinners.

Although the drawing rooms of this official residence adjoining the Rouses of Parliament are known to many guests, the kitchens have never been on view before, at least in the 10 years since Captain and Airs. Fit/.Roy were there. In this setting nearly a hundred hostesses took a cookery lesson on February 17 from a noted chef. Their 10/ti tickets- to raise funds for Westminster Hospital's new nurses' home—admitted them to the most exclusive part of the Speaker's house—the stone-flagged suite of kitchens where nmllioned windows look on to the Thames a few yards away. The background has gleaming rows of copper utensils, and visitors sat; round the solid oak table and tree trunk with their backs to a safe stamped with the Royal Arms. One interested member of the audience was the Speaker's chef, Mrs. Cadd. who is responsible for nil the dishes served at his parties—Mrs. Fit/.Roy believes in having everything done at home.