PRIZES FOR COOKERY,

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 51, 2 March 1909, Page 9

PRIZES FOR COOKERY,

—«—« — LORD CARRINGTON HONOURED. LE CORDON ROUGE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) CONDON, 25th January. The Countess Carrington, who was accompanied by her husband, distri buted the pi'izes won at the Cookery and Food Exhibition last November. In tho bakery group of piize-viinners there were many elderly men, one of whom bore, the suitable name of Edwin Cake. The Portsmouth navy cooks, who won the challenge shield, with 948 marks out of a possible 1000, were greeted with deserved applause, J. Pacey taking the special silver medal which went with the shield. In the army cookery section the 9th County of London carried off tho shield. A Jittle child, Edna Woods, won tho silver watch for artisans' specimen meals. Many well-known firms were winners in the commercial group. Oil the conclusion of the ceremony of presenting the prizes, Mr. Isidore Salmon proceeded to invest Countess Carrington, to her surprise and pleasure, with the Order of Merit of the Association, and Earl Carrington with the Cordon Rouge, "on behalf of the supreme Don and president," Major Walter Wingfield. The Cordon Rouge is a dinner decoration; it is bestowed on persons chosen for their interest in and appreciation of the culinary art, and is worn by dons when dining with brother dons. A REMINISCENCE. Lord Carrington, in replying, referred to the fact that Sir Charles Frederick, Master of the King's Household, bad accepted the presidency of the association, declaring that this was an earnest of the interest taken by the King and Queen in the art of cookery. Referring to-- the presentation by the Army Council of a shield for hospital cookery, his lordship observed that he had been twenty years in the army, and the etandard of cooking had much improved in recent years. During the Commune, in 1871, he had seen what he believed to be the first field kitchen, drawn by two horses ami following a Versailles regiment marching to barracks. Field kitchens effected an immense economy of time and labour in J war; two army cooks could prepare rations for 1000 men, ami the food could be cooked pn route to camp, po that the arrival of the kitchen during military operations meant the dinner hour.