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History and present status of instruction in cooking in the public schools of New York city

1899

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Presented as published in 1899. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Chemistry lessons according to manual. Composition on the chemistry of foods once every four weeks. Practical Work. Boiling oatmeal and other cereals. Wheat muffins. Baked apples. Making of toffee. Plain omelet. Tea. Tomato soup with rice Tea biscuit. Lessons on bread making, extraction of gluten from flour. Cocoa. Pea soup with croutons. Baked custard. Corn muffins. Plain rice pudding. Cottage pudding with lemon sauce. Milk toast. 22 Suggestions for Practical Work — Continued. Codfish balls. Gingerbread. Mashed }->otatoes. Popovers. Steamed brown bread. Oyster sonp. Molasses gems. Creamed potatoes. Baked fish. Scrambled eggs. Potato soup. Chocolate. Creamed codfish. Griddle cakes. Preparing a chicken to roast. Mock bisque soup Plain cake., with suggestions for fancy cake. Clam soup. Special Foods Junket made with pepsin. Boiled fish with egg sauce. Macaroni with tomato sauce. Whole -wheat gems. Potato salad. Corn-starch blancmange. Queen of pudding made vrith bread ernnfbs. Omelet soufde. Pastry, with suggestions for different kinds of pies. Dutch apple cake with sauce. Graham pudding. Jumbles. Sponge cake. Lemon jelly. Tapioca cream. Snow pudding with boiled custard. for Invalids. Beef tea made in a bottle. Mutton broth with boiled rice. Crust coffee. Indian-meal gruel Barley gruel. Oatmeal o-ruel. Irish-moss lemonade. Irish-moss blancmange. Flour souffle. Stewed oysters. Brown-bread brewis. The following are samples of the reports made to the city superin- tendent of schools regarding the courses in cooking in each school dur- ing this year : Female Dflartmexl Grammar School Xo. — , New York, October 5, 1S96. Seating capacity of kitchen 35 Xurnber of hours and minutes the teacher of cooking is employed each week in this department 2 hours 30 minutes Third grade. Number of classes : Number in each class Number receiving lesson in practice together a Number receiving lesson in chemistry together Length of each lesson in practice hours.. Length of each lesson in chemistry do Number of lessons in practice which each child receives per month a... Number of lessons in chemistry which each child receives per month Total time given to instruction in this grade per month hours.. 1 29 5 29 n 1 2 2 5 a Every child in each class is present at a practical lesson twice a month, but as only five can work at a time, each child has actual practice but two or three times in a term. -, rrincijjal. 23 Female Department, Grammar School No. — , New York, October —, 1896. Seating capacity of kitchen 45 Number of hours the teacher of cooking is employed each week in this department 1 3 Number of classes Number in eacb class Number receiving lesson in practice togetber Number receiving lesson in chemistry together Length of each lesson in practice « hours.. Length of each lesson in chemistry a do Number of lessons in practice which each child receives per month Number of lessons in chemistry which each child receives per month Second grade. Total time given to instruction in this grade per month hours. . i 12 or 15 a The lessous in practice and those in chemistry are frequently combined. While some articles are being cooked, a lesson in chemistry can be given. , Principal.