COOKING LESSONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 247, 18 October 1937, Page 8

COOKING LESSONS

YOUNG PRINCESSES. SMALL-SCALE STOVE. EXPERT INSTRUCTION. LONDON, Sept. 18. A special small-scale cooking stove is to be installed in the Buckingham Palace kitchens for the use of Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Princess Margaret Rose, who are learning to cook. It is not to be just a nursery game for them. The Princesses will study the arts of pots and pans, casseroles and egg whisks under expert instruction in the Royal kitchens, which are being modernised. Queen Elizabeth is a skilled cook, and she is enthusiastic at the idea of the Princesses following in her footsteps. But the idea of cookery practice in the Royal kitchen was Princess Elizabeth’s.

When the Christmas before King George V. died, Princess Elizabeth took a hand at icing a Christmas cake at Sandringham, several of the staff remarked that she had “the wrist of a born cook” —very firm and flexible for her age and light in touch. Even before that, a miniature toy cooking stove was included among the Princess’ toys. Now Princess Margaret Rose is old enough to be delighted at the idea of rivalling her sister in the kitchen. But she will have to wait a few years longer than Princess Elizabeth before she can hope to attain the latter’s ambition of passing the girl guides’ cookery test.