THAT FATAL MONOTONY IN HOME DISHES.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 4251, 22 June 1895, Page 4

THAT FATAL MONOTONY IN HOME DISHES.

" There are people who imagine that cookery is too practical and plebeian a pursuit to engage the attention of cultivated minds. It deals entirely with the body, they think, and not at all with the soul or spirit. 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 1 do not think it is putting it too strongly to say that, unless circumstances enable the housemother to comm-

and the best skill in others, she cannot truly perform her duty to her children unlesa she herself knows inti mately something of the practice of it. From infancy tbe little beings are help, less in her hands, aud unless she understands the needs of the little hungry, healthy, growing bodies she is liable to make mistakes which, later on, no one will more bitterly regret than she herself. Adults can usually take care of themselves, but even with them the housewife should be on her guard arjainst that fatal monotony of menu which robs food of its value. 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 &o much to make it digestible. The world is full of flavors, but in most households very few are used. And when one thinks of the thousands of British homes where food is daily laid before the family in an ill-cooked, unpalatable form, one realises how the good gifts of a kindly Providence are mislaid or misused,"