COOKING CLASSES BOOM

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21036, 12 February 1940, Page 5

COOKING CLASSES BOOM

THE USE OF SUBSTITUTES Rationing is attracting the girls to the co ikery classes at the London County Council night schools. They are learning what can be done to make “meals without coupons.” The Ministry of Food is making a big drive to educate women and schoolgirls in the best use of wartime rations. By the end of February a comprehensive scheme of cookery lectures and demonstrations will be in operation throughout the country. Recipes and suggestions are pouring into the Ministry’s offices, and all those of interest are being “vetted” and tested. Experts will plan the campaign and pool ideas. Recipes for bread and cake were being tested for the Ministry at the Gas Light and Coke Company’s kitchens. An official said:

“We find that many old recipes in use during the last war fall short of our modern standards.

“I am convinced that it was bad feeding which contributed largely to the people’s lack of resistance in the ’flu epidemic of 1918." Miss Dorothy Vaughan, housecraft supervisor at the Women’s Electrical Association, is helping the Ministry by testing various methods of economising in butter and sugar. By gradually adding four tablespoonfuls of milk, warmed to blood heat, and beating with a fork, she increases the four-ounces gutter ration to six and a half ounces.