VIII White Sauce (Two) 29 IX Stuffed Tomato 33 X Scalloped Tomatoes 35 XI Squash 37 XII Vegetables (Reading) 39 XIII Cream of Potato Soup 43 XIV Split Pea, Lentil, or Bean Puree 46 XV Cream of Tomato Soup 48 XVI Experiments with Starch 52 XVII Corn Starch Mold 53 XVIII The Fireless Cooker (Reading) 56 XIX Corn Meal Mush 58 Fried Corn Meal Mush with Caramel Sauce ... 58 XX Steamed Rice with Dates 61 XXI Turkish Pilaf 63 XXII Oatmeal Mush with Apples 65 XXIII Reading XXIV Sago Pudding 71 XXV Tapioca Pudding 74 XXVI Macaroni and Cheese 75 XXVII Sugar (Reading) 78 XXVIII Peanut Nougat 80 XXIX Chocolate Fudge 82 XXX Peanut and Potato Combination 85 XXXI Nuts (Reading) 86 5 Digitized by LjOOQIC 6 DOMESTIC SCIENCE LESSON ^ PAGE XXXII Experiments with Eggs 92 XXXIII Poached Egg 94 XXXIV Plain Omelet '. 96 XXXV Scrambled Eggs 100 XXXVI Yellow Custard 100 White Custard 103 XXXVII Caramel Custard 104 XXXVIII Additional Recipes 107 XXXIX Eggs (Reading) '..... 109 XL Pop-overs 112 XLI Bread Griddle Cakes 114 XLII Sour-Milk Griddle Cakes 117 XLIII Graham Muffins 119 XLIV Corn Meal Gems 121 XLV Twin Mountain Muffins 123 XLVI Plain Cake 125 XLVII Plain Boiled Frosting 129 XLVIII White Mountain Cream 130 •XLIX Batters (Reading) 132 L Drop Biscuit 137 LI Baking Powder Biscuit 139 LII Fruit Rolls 141 LIII Short Cake 143 LIV Plain Pastry 147 LV Peach or Apple Pie 149 LVI Custard Pie ' 152 LVII Lettuce and Radish Salad with French Dressing . . 155 LVIII Potato Salad 158 LIX Fruit Salad ; 161 LX Easter Salad 163 LXI Sandwiches 166 LXII Coffee 169 LXIII Coffee (Reading) 172 LXIV Tea 175 Marketing 181 Glossary 197 Index 203 Digitized by Google Cookery means the knowledge of Medea, and of Circe, and of Helen, and of the Queen of Sheba. It means knowledge of herbs and fruits and balms and spices and all that is healing and sweet in the fields and groves, and savory in m^eats. It means carefulness and inventiveness and willingness and readiness of appliances. It means the economy of your grandmothers and the science of the modem chemist; it means much testing and no wasting; it means English thoroughness and French art and Arabian hospitality; and, in fine, it means that you are to be perfectly and always ladies — loaf givers, — Ruskin. Digitized by Google Digitized by Google DOMESTIC SCIENCE Lesson I ' ; • ' • ' > - • • Cooking (Reading) It took many centuries for man to learn how to provide for himself comfortable shelter, food, and clothing, and a still longer time to make of his shelter a home furnished with conveniences for living, eating, and sleeping, such as we now enjoy. In times of old there were no dishes, for instance, but people by degrees learned to make them by hollowing out pieces of wood, then by shaping and drying clay and then by shaping metals. Wild fruits, berries, roots, and the like, eaten in their raw state, were the first food of man, and when the flesh of animals became a part of his diet, it also was eaten uncooked. It may have been accidentally discovered that heat applied to some foods improves their flavor, but, at any rate, the preparation of food for eating by means of cooking was a later development. Charles Lamb's well-known account of the origin of roast pig may be the product of his fancy, but it is well known that roasting was the first cooking process known to mankind. Later, people learned to wrap raw food in skins and leaves and bake it among red-hot stones or in the ashes. Still later, they found out that placing raw food in water which had been heated by dropping into it hot stones also made the food more palatable, and thus the art of boiling came into use.

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VIII White Sauce (Two) 29 IX Stuffed Tomato 33 X Scalloped Tomatoes 35 XI Squash 37 XII Vegetables (Reading) 39 XIII Cream of Potato Soup 43 XIV Split Pea, Lentil, or Bean Puree 46 XV Cream of Tomato Soup 48 XVI Experiments with Starch 52 XVII Corn Starch Mold 53 XVIII The Fireless Cooker (Reading) 56 XIX Corn Meal Mush 58 Fried Corn Meal Mush with Caramel Sauce ... 58 XX Steamed Rice with Dates 61 XXI Turkish Pilaf 63 XXII Oatmeal Mush with Apples 65 XXIII Reading XXIV Sago Pudding 71 XXV Tapioca Pudding 74 XXVI Macaroni and Cheese 75 XXVII Sugar (Reading) 78 XXVIII Peanut Nougat 80 XXIX Chocolate Fudge 82 XXX Peanut and Potato Combination 85 XXXI Nuts (Reading) 86 Digitized by LjOOQIC LESSON ^ PAGE XXXII Experiments with Eggs 92 XXXIII Poached Egg 94 XXXIV Plain Omelet '. 96 XXXV Scrambled Eggs 100 XXXVI Yellow Custard 100 White Custard 103 XXXVII Caramel Custard 104 XXXVIII Additional Recipes 107 XXXIX Eggs (Reading) '..... 109 XL Pop-overs 112 XLI Bread Griddle Cakes 114 XLII Sour-Milk Griddle Cakes 117 XLIII Graham Muffins 119 XLIV Corn Meal Gems 121 XLV Twin Mountain Muffins 123 XLVI Plain Cake 125 XLVII Plain Boiled Frosting 129 XLVIII White Mountain Cream 130 •XLIX Batters (Reading) 132 L Drop Biscuit 137 LI Baking Powder Biscuit 139 LII Fruit Rolls 141 LIII Short Cake 143 LIV Plain Pastry 147 LV Peach or Apple Pie 149 LVI Custard Pie ' 152 LVII Lettuce and Radish Salad with French Dressing . . 155 LVIII Potato Salad 158 LIX Fruit Salad ; 161 LX Easter Salad 163 LXI Sandwiches 166 LXII Coffee 169 LXIII Coffee (Reading) 172 LXIV Tea 175 Marketing 181 Glossary 197 Index 203 Digitized by Google Cookery means the knowledge of Medea, and of Circe, and of Helen, and of the Queen of Sheba. It means knowledge of herbs and fruits and balms and spices and all that is healing and sweet in the fields and groves, and savory in meats. It means carefulness and inventiveness and willingness and readiness of appliances. It means the economy of your grandmothers and the science of the modem chemist; it means much testing and no wasting; it means English thoroughness and French art and Arabian hospitality; and, in fine, it means that you are to be perfectly and always ladies — loaf-givers, — Ruskin. Digitized by Google Digitized by Google Lesson I ' ; • ' • ' > - • • Cooking (Reading) It took many centuries for man to learn how to provide for himself comfortable shelter, food, and clothing, and a still longer time to make of his shelter a home furnished with conveniences for living, eating, and sleeping, such as we now enjoy. In times of old there were no dishes, for instance, but people by degrees learned to make them by hollowing out pieces of wood, then by shaping and drying clay and then by shaping metals. Wild fruits, berries, roots, and the like, eaten in their raw state, were the first food of man, and when the flesh of animals became a part of his diet, it also was eaten uncooked. It may have been accidentally discovered that heat applied to some foods improves their flavor, but, at any rate, the preparation of food for eating by means of cooking was a later development. Charles Lamb's well-known account of the origin of roast pig may be the product of his fancy, but it is well known that roasting was the first cooking process known to mankind. Later, people learned to wrap raw food in skins and leaves and bake it among red-hot stones or in the ashes. Still later, they found out that placing raw food in water which had been heated by dropping into it hot stones also made the food more palatable, and thus the art of boiling came into use.

Domestic science (1914 text-book)