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Domestic science (Clark, Cornell home economics)

1911

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Presented as published in 1911. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Three classes can be taught each day, the first class reporting at 8:30 and leaving at 10. The next class comes in at 10 :30 and stays imtil 12. Two each day is a better arrangement. At the first lesson seats and lockers are assigned. Girls should have note-books in which to take notes and recipes from the blackboard and write up the lesson. About once in each month the instructor should mark the books. To economize in both material and time, arrange an individual recipe with each lesson and have two girls prepare the recipe. The large recipe is for home use. Each girl is to cook at home what she has cooked at school that same week, and report on this the following week. This may be counted as one-half of the mark for each lesson. The two girls who act as housekeepers for the class must have everything on the tables that will be needed for cooking, and extra supplies on the supply table for emergencies. If anything is needed from the supply table the housekeepers are to take it to the table where it is needed. They refill the water pitchers for the next class. They wash the sink and extension. They look over all the tables at the close of the lesson and report to the teacher that these are or are not in perfect order. They attend to the fire in a baking lesson, and see that the tea-kettle is full of hot water for washing extra dishes. They see that the towels are hung properly on the rack to dry and that supplies are on the table for the next class. Housekeepers who serve at the lesson that comes in the afternoon are to see that the supply table is in perfect order and all extra dishes put away. >» ^ K o 01 ^ i^ m P £5 o ho 3 O o n O) o rt d « m ^ n ^ CQ "^ t. z — bl) ■< '3 o « Oh ■- Z " V INTRODUCTION 9 For dish-washing have plenty of hot water ready. If a range is used this will be ready, and the dish- washer may go to the sink and get the water. If no range is used the large tea-kettle may be filled and the water heated on the gas or oil stove, or each girl may heat water on her own gas plate. Scrape the plates thoroughly. Wash the glasses first in hot, soapy water; then the silver, cups, saucers and plates; lastly the baking dishes. Rinse thoroughly and use a dry towel to wipe the dishes. Just before the dish-washing, housekeepers should fold the towels and dishcloths for the next class and place them on each table, ready for use. Girls should all wear caps, aprons and sleevelets. These are to be made in the sewing classes, and are to be kept in lockers or closets, whichever are pro- vided. At the first lesson assign to each girl a per- manent place. Girls not supplied with uniforms are told what to get and are expected to supply themselves, if possible. The cooking imiform may be made of India lawn. It reqtiires about 4J yards of material for girls of medium size and 5 yards for the larger girls. Each girl should have a cap, made with elastic, that will fit the head. The apron may be made as long as a girl's dress, with or without a bib. Make sleevelets that will come up above the elbow, with elastic there and at the wrist. For the first lesson tell the class something about cookery, as suggested in this outline, and about the objects of cooking. Explain to them the places where utensils are to be kept, and how important 10 DOMESTIC SCIENCE