NOVEL LESSON

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1938, Page 16

NOVEL LESSON

THE SPEAKER'S KITCHEN

EXCLUSIVE LONDON

FUNCTION

An afternoon in the Speaker's Kitvchen—London's most beautiful private kitchen and one of the most historical —was among unusual plans made for the busy weeks before Easter to entertain London. In recent seasons chatelaines of Town houses have contributed large sums to 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 thjs official residence adjoining the Houses of Parliament are known to many guests, the kitchens have never been on view before, at least in the ten years since Captain and Mrs. Fitzßoy were there.'. cbPPEB AND OAK. ' .In.'this setting nearly .'a hundred hostesses took a cookery lesson on February 17 from a noted chef. r Their 10s 6d tickets—to raise fund for Westminster Hospital's new Nurses' Home —admitted them to the most exclusive part of the Speaker's House—the stoneflagged suite1 of kitchens where mullioned 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; 7 .chef, Mrs. Cadd, who is responsible for, all the dishes served at his -parties—Mrs. FitzRoy ■'■in having ' '.everything1 done at home.