COOKING BY INSTINCT.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 266, 13 April 1917, Page 3 (Supplement)

COOKING BY INSTINCT.

i In tho kitchen of an old monastery in Franco a group of British women, of good education, are cooking and washing up all day long, and they have l>een doing it for many months. The syay they ccok potatoes is a. thing to write about, and the French soldiers who have eaten them will tell you that they want to go back to that monas-

tery, which is now a hospital, because the food is so good. Not only do those women cooks of tho educated classes cook well, but they are economical. Another English woman, who before, tho war knew nothing about cooking, i:i a past mistress in the art of making apple dumplings, as many an English soldier, as well as a- few English sailors, will l>oar witness. When asked how she learned, she said that a French friend of hers had lent her her cook for twenty-four hours, and during that time she had made rapid progress in many things. Then there was the

handy man about tho canteen, an Englishman, wh had lived in Frame for many years. Ho taught her a great deal. But as to the tarts and the apple dumplings, alio must have learned to make thoso by instinct, fofno one ha-; taught her how to make the paste or keep tho apples dry.