TEACHING SOLDIERS TO-COOK

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2594, 16 October 1915, Page 3

TEACHING SOLDIERS TO-COOK

London lias become the world's greatest cookery university. More than one hundred London County Council schools and similar institutions are its colleges. Its undergraduates aro meii of. the now army who have come up from tho camps at Aldershot and other training centres throughout the country, and its tutors and lecturers are the women experts in domestic economy, wlio teach tho girls in the London elementary schools tlio theory and practice of plain cooking. These women recently sacrificed a fortnight of their holidays in order to teach tho army, how to obtain something fit' to eat. Each class of men was billeted in the school in -which it was receiving instruction, and bad the run of the playground for purposes of sport. The culinary equipment of tho council schools was'never intended for the demonstration of military cooking. The kitchcn classrooms'have not Aldershot ovens or kitchen wagons designed for tho preparation oF meals in the mass; thoy nro provided only with the small utensils such as girls who attend them would have to use in their homes. But the basic principles of good cooking are the samo, whether tho scale on which thoy aro applied is largo or small, and the first and chief, of them is simplicity.