COOKING LIKE LIGHTNING.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 534, 15 June 1909, Page 3

COOKING LIKE LIGHTNING.

■;"; :i HOW MISS LOVELL WORKS; • i You ■ would ; .probably vdisliko to liavo. to cook ai-appetisuig lunch I .for two. people, in twenty minutes,, .out, you would love; to v sit and watch , another woman' do it, and, that feat is ono.of thofasciuatirig demonstratioiis that will, be given !by Miss Lovell during her visit ,to:>Vellingten-this week.. It. is; an achievement .on which she prides her6elf,;and it is^one'.tliist. gained , ; the high approval .of the judges at a famens 'cooking competition at Earl's Court; London, \jwhere: eighty -'competitors' -entered for. a'gas stove 'cooking tWvinners'.of .successive com-' petitions■■.to\compete af towards: with' -each other for' thochainpionship. ■ : Miss -~Lovell carried off 'that xjhaihpionsliip '.with' 140. marks, ottt of a. possible Uo,'. and her '"lightning lunch" played a big- part in.the. competition. ■How many minutes "did it'■ take ?;, .Well, it was far. under.'twenty■■minutes; but twenty: ■ minutes is.:the margin Miss , . Lovell';; allows herself, in case of interruptions■• ox ■ of ihcoaVenience3.''.' ■'. I■■, '.'■:' : ■. v '.','. ••■■•' ~■ ■' : . iThis afternppn ;a;.deinonstration of how 'tp'cbok'.a, 'dmner.with .'a'gas stove, the ; these to''"bo coo'kedt'in ;'li.ttl.o.: r Jho're ;than":an hour, with recipes, ; and lecturette all included. Thursday night's.'demonstration sees a. very surprised" chicken, which- finds itself boned ; by Miss Loyoll'slrapjd hands, and set up again ; to look" as. good as new,,.all. within .fifteen mimites, a;record time for. performing tho delieate- task:- Rapidity, is one ■ of. Miss Lovell's charaeteristics: Sjio.lias tho'reputatiori not only; of being .a lightning cook, but of being.ono of tlie most speedy lecturers in England,'and she has had plenty, of expen'encenvthis line, for,"during 1 the past fourteen years/-'she been lecturing- steadily,; antl claims .to have given lectures, in •■:. threu. jinndred English ■ towns as well': as in fortj lrisla. and 'fifty Scottish 0ne5..... ■;' ■>. ■'.; ■ "■".-. "; '■ ;' 'AVe all- know— id 'bur; it'is not ,in;tho power ;'of loyeryone;to' becomo a'.firstr cla^s -cookV'that' oven, given instructionj.'iihd dehionstration" week .by week, .many peoplo fail to-grasp .the essential ideas of; cookerj-, while. with; hardly any training,': con- ■ trive to: turn' out' the most toothsome dainties, simply because' they have the cooking instinct, evolved in. the hiiman race after, generations of : eating' uncooked 'foods'; :, Miss Loyell belonGis, 'to this, last p. class, and, ;.from _ her earliest .childhood,-sho'loved to cook things,beginning with toffeesj and going on. to quite olaborato/little:repasts served, on miniature dishes,'and at last, when her schooldays' were over, sho'.we'ut to the National '•' School :of Cooking in London, where ..she-, took her diploma, beginning, spon.after her'return to. hor : home, fto' lecture to, tho villagerson the art:of cooking, .and: giving them demonstra-tions.-.'lf.was atono;of these: lectures, that/ tho proprietor of a great, stove manufacturing business heard her, and ..he' at once, engaged her to. lecture on behalf of his firm—an en-gagement.-which ' she has .kept ■' ;iintil now ; though :that'was fourteen years ago:- ~ '<. :, ; - Jliss Loyell, has for the past two...months been lecturing'through tho : Australian .towns, and says that she found the Australian women very keen and.interested.? Sho.camo over from Melbourne to the Bluff, and has been lecturing 'in -Dunedin .and -.Christchuroh, where' she had-.'very good audiences. She was to; have' spent some .time in ' Wellington,! but has-been obliged to'shorten her-visit to New Zealand, and will:therefore, only pay short visits to-AVelliniston'and Auckland.'. ;.■ "