HOW TO COOK.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2785, 7 August 1915, Page 3

HOW TO COOK.

School-teachers in England are specialising in the domestic arts, « so as to spend their holidays giving cookery lessons in the camps of Britain's now' armies.—ltem by cable. "Teach me how to woo*, dear; ,teach me lioav to squeeze; Teach me how to sit upon your sympathetic knees" — This with other soppy stuff is printed in the book; Rather would I ask you, dear 4 teach me how to cook. Far away on Belgium soil waits the scowling Hun; Won'ifc it need a well-fed man to get him on the run? Out of all the weapons winch will ' gain the victory 1 Three are most importantrp-they are Breakfast, Dinner, Tea. While you pack the waggons with tho highest explosive shell, Don't forget munitions for the men's insides as well 1 ; Many a rout has been begun, many a flank been turned Just because the soup was smoked, because the bread was burned. "Marching on its stomach" is an army's motto yet—• Hew can any army march on spuds all cold and wet ? Forty-seven pairs of socks from' ladies good and kind Won't atone for beef that's baked as hard as bacon-rind. Aldershot to Liverpool, the story is the samer — - , Soldiers searching for the cook with Avords of lurid flame; Never in a Dago's shop did a widemouthed man Use such awful language as a hungry soldier can. 'Tis a frequent epitaph in any modern war— "Killed by Indigestion"—over all an army corps: Food and Fight are partners, and a tummy full of woe * Quicker than a bayonet will lay a soldier - loav. Teach the private how to shoot, teach him how to march; Stiffen up the officers with necessary starch; '_'-. Teach the general to win according , to the book— But grab those kitchen rouseabouts and teach them how to cook! —Sydney Sun.