HOW A MAN COOKS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 238, 5 September 1928, Page 11

HOW A MAN COOKS.

If you want a man to cook a meal bo prepared to put up with a hymn of martyrdom for several hours, but if you gently insinuate into the unsuspecting male mind that ho has no knowledge of 'the art of cooking, like a child he will immediately be anxious to show you just what ho can do. There is method in your madness in letting him loose amongst your pots and pans for, if he turns out something worth eating, you know that' next Sunday, when you,.want an ex-1 'fra hour in bed, he may be prevailed | upon to get your breakfast.- He is i certain to bring cut every, utensil in | the kitchen, even if ho does not use them. They look busy and are ready in ease of emergency. The price of eggs and tomatoes is nothing to him, but a word of advice worth remembering is. “Leave him alone whatever you do.” Bo resigned 'to lire fate of the kitchen and, abovo all show your appreciation of the food which ultimately makes its appearance, as you would like your “man” to do if you tackled one of his “jobs.”' One man tells bow ho prepares the same breakfast dish iie serves to his family every Sunday—“ Mother’s day off.” First of all he smashes some tomatoes into a pan (illustrating the piocess with a movement suggesting stone-breaking); then ho throws in some eggs and squishes them all up together, cooks ’em for a while, and then heaves them on to some toast, and they are ready. He affirms that the result is remarkably good and the family loves them that way. Funnily enough, a man usually succeeds in turning out a really enjoyable disk —if ho likes to try.