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Notes and recipes, freshman domestic science, H. Sophie Newcomb memorial college

1915

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Presented as published in 1915. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
TX 167 .B6 Copy 1 NOTES AND RECIPES FRESHMAN DOMESTIC SCIENCE H. SOPHIE NEWCOMB MEMORIAL COLLEGE HARRIET AMELIA BOYER, Professor of Domestic Science. Illustrations by S. A. E. Irvine and Mary McNaughton, of the Newcomb School of Art. Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. — Henry Van Dyke. -fill! Copyright, 1915 by Harriet A. Boyer / TULANE UNrVERSITY PRESS NEW ORLEANS 1915 a§§g.:^g ..^ )GI,A418333 JAN -6 1916 FOREWORD. This little book is primarily a note book for Domestic Science Freshmen in which to keep records of laboratory work according to outline. In it will be found information always desired at the beginning of the course, with some recipes M^orked over in former years. It includes, with some other foods, fish and shellfish of this locality. The course of study for rural schools is added for outline and suggestion in first years of teaching. SOME DEFINITIONS. Home Economics is the study of the sanitary, economic and a?sthetic aspects of, food, clothing and shelter, in regard to their selection, preparation and use by the family in the home and by other groups of people. Economics is the science which treats of the production, distribution and consumption of wealth. Economy pertains to the management of an estate, com- munity or establishment. Household : the family, including servants and other in- mates. Science : knowledge gained by observation, experiment and reasoning ; coordinated, arranged, systematized. Art : skill, dexterity or the power of performing certain actions acquired by experience, study or observation. The study of food, clothing and shelter conducted in pub- lie schools, normal schools, colleges, etc., has received dif- ferent names, as Home Economics, Home Science, Household Science, Household Management, etc. A committee of the foremost professional workers of the country decided that the name Home Economics best expresses the meaning and purpose of the study, and the official organ is named "Journal of Home Economics." The American Association of Home Economics, composed of teachers, professors, food experts and scientists connected with the work, meets annually, usually at the time and place of meeting of the National Educational Association. The Lake Placid Conference, under the direction of Dr. and Mrs. Dewey, made the first effort toward organization of Home Economics and has been a constant inspiration and serv- ice. This organization meets annually at Lake Placid, in the Adirondack Mountains. When Newcomb College was founded in 1886 by Mrs. Jo- sephine Louise Newcomb as a memorial to her only child, Harriet Sophie, her letter of gift to the Tulane Administrators contained this clause: ''I request that the education given shall look to the practical side of life as well as to literary ex- cellence." In accordance with this idea Dr. Brandt V. B. Dixon, Presi- dent of the College, organized a training school for teachers in Home Economics in the year 1909. Courses of two years are offered, leading to a diploma, with two additional years for a degree. Freshman Year. Sophomore Year. Points. Points. Domestic Science Al — . 3 Domestic Science B2... 3 Chemistry A2 3 Domestic Science Teaching B3.. 1 English Al 3 Biology AB2 3 Educational Hygiene A8, first History of Education B2 first