THAT FATAL MONOTONY IN HOME DISHES!

Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 134, 8 June 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)

THAT FATAL MONOTONY IN HOME DISHES !

"Thero are people who imagine that cookery is too praotical and plebeian »a pursuit to engage the attention of cultivated minds. ' It deals ontirely with the body, they think, aud not at all with the soul or spirit, f- When we are very young," (says Mrs. Humphrey in the Windsor Magazine) " we think such thoughts as these. Experience teaches us the fallacy of such theories. Not even the most cultivated of women should despise the science of cookery, and I do not think it is putting it too strongly to say that, unless circumstances enable the house-mother 'to command- the beet' skill in others, she cannot truly perform her duty to her children unless she herself knows intimately something of the practice of it. From infanoy : the little beings are helpless in her hands, and unless she understands the needs of the littlehungry.healthj^growingbodies, she is liable to make mistakes which, later on, no one will more bitterly regret than Bhe' herself. Adults can usually take care of .themselves, but oven with them the housewife should be on her guard against that fatalmonotony of menu which robs food of much of its value, i,' Many a man gets so heartily tired of bacon for breakfast; for instance, that he eats it merely mechanically and without 'that pleasing of the palate which does ao'muoh to make it digestible. The •wor}d is full of flavours, butin most households very few are used. And wheirorie'thuuks of.th^ thousands, of British homes where.^food is daily laid before the^family ip anill-cooked,

unpalatable foiw, one realises ho\i he good gifts of a kindly Providonci ire mislaid or misused."