SCHOOL OF COOKERY.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 40, 15 April 1875, Page 6

SCHOOL OF COOKERY.

At Leeds a society of ladies has been inre^stjenqe -for >a4fe.w?y.ears,?wh;jph bits ;Worked£ veryi;_ energetically^ arioV-- with, good common;., senses or uncommpn/ sense^ ass our young ; lady: friend -.^Quld sa^among the- waineh! who lareof -that sectipnpf society Renominated as " the working classes^.. By means of evening classes, lectures, houseAtoihouse visiting,; :&c.,< educational and sanitary reforms; .haye,, been carried out, apd civilisation ' advanced in a way which those,, who. jknow ?/ hpw*, dlfju/onlt it is, to' influence the masses in EnglisL manufacturing; towns, would scarcely believe possible/ The, Leeds ladies gave themselves v concern, about ! ' W?P¥i *°v f \lH4V^a\tli\er\ 'ilassesi. \who' ' are pretty ,. sura .of homp'rcomfprt, whether. cooking classes, were taught or not, but have established schools 1 to teach cottage cooking in Leeds, , V^akefield^Shefneld, and bthef. -large maim--facjturmg tp'wnsj.bf wh'icq Leeds may be said - to . be. •. the . centre. Here the wife of the millwrightj of'- the carpenter, the mason, the bricklayer, or the small tradesman ; ,cpmef to> s££~whap;is. cooked oh the little, kitchen range which sjhe already has] in i her. own house j hpw r small .a.pieceuof, meat may,- do. th^sduty of a large piece ; how 'the oven heated to prepare -dinner, may be made available/'/tO: advance the preparations for supper:; how scraps 'are turned to account ; how... cooking for the sick ought, to she v<lpji©Trnut)ricions, varied, and with economy ; not a class in which mention is-, made of a meringues, a spun%,, patLala fois, eras, but. where the- onion is a domestic treasure, and the pepper castor -no mean ally ; how t^nieatyis to, ]be carried to. the,', works Zwnfire/the hi\sban'di must -cline may be as good when he sits down to it as ! whem taken. 'fromi the., fire— in* a' wbrß, how ,a woman may best do her duty in .'that' state. of life in which it has. pleased God to call her; ' In no other toiyn ;perliap's, 4n the three kingdoms did t|ie .same machinery exist, as in Leeds for a work of this kind, but there is every hope of it-prpspering, /and other towns may fipd. a r^goAa deal to learn by •studying' the 5 'machinery worked by Mrs ■ Lupton and the. other Yorkshire ladies.—* London Correspondent,.