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Instruction in cookery (Methuen's text-books, Thompson)

1908

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Presented as published in 1908. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
22. A Course of instruction in Combined Domestic Subjects must include Cookery, Laundry Work and Housewifery. Such a Course must provide for at least 100 hours’ instruction, and may provide for any higher multiple of 10 hours up to 200 hours. About 40 per cent, of the time provided by the Course should be assigned to Cookery, about 20 per cent, to Laundry Work, and about 40 per cent to Housewifery. In each of these subjects at least half the time must be given to practical work by "the scholars with their own hands. 23. ( a ) Scholars registered in a Course in Combined Domestic Subjects must, as a rule, have previously undergone at least one full Course of instruction in both Cookery and Laundry Work, but this condition may be relaxed in cases in which the equipment of the Centre and the syllabus of instruction have been specially approved by the Board. (b) The number of scholars registered in a course must not exceed 42. For practical work the class must not exceed fourteen in number. After July 31, 1908, the number of scholars who may be registered in a Course in Combined Domestic Subjects will be reduced to eighteen, and the number of scholars who may be taught in a class for practical work will be increased to the same number. This Regulation may, with the approval of the Board, be brought into operation in the case of any Course beginning after August 1, 1907. (c) The scholars registered in a Course in Combined Domestic Subjects must be girls who are over twelve years of age at the date of the first lesson, with the exception that not more than one-sixth of the registered scholars may be girls who are between the ages of eleven and twelve at the date of the first lesson, if it is shown to the Board that such an arrangement is desirable in any case in view of the organization of the ordinary school-work. 24. A teacher will be regarded as qualified to give instruction in Combined Domestic Subjects to scholars in Public Elementary 8 JI4 INSTRUCTION IN COOKERY Schools, either in Centre Courses or in School Courses, if either— (i.) she holds a Diploma in Combined Domestic Subjects recognized under the Regulations for the Recognition by the Board of Education of Diplomas awarded by Training Schools in Domestic Subjects ; or (ii.) she holds Diplomas in Cookery, Laundry Work, and Housewifery, which have either been awarded by the Board or have been recognized by the Board either under the above-mentioned Regulations or under previous Codes. 25. Grant will be payable on account of each registered scholar who has attended during not less than 80 per cent, of the hours of instruction in the Course ; this grant will be at the rate of 7s. 6d. if these are not more than 100, and will be increased proportionately up to 15s. if a longer Course is given. 26. No girl who is registered in a Course for Combined Domestic Subjects in any Special Subjects Year may also be registered in a Cookery or Laundry Work Course during the same year. INDEX Accounts, 41 Albumin water, 88 Anaemia, 83 Appendicitis, 82 Apples, baked pulp, 88 Arrowroot, 88 Baked flour, 85 Baking bread and pastry, 47 Baking-powder, 28 Barley water for babies, 95 for invalids, 87 Beef, raw, 86 Beef-tea, 86 Beverages for sickness, 84 Blancmange, 88 Boiling, 49 Bread, brown, 24 lesson, 19 soda, 28 white, 24 York brown, 29 Budgets, weekly, 32