DON’T HAVE A COOKING FACE

Shannon News, 2 August 1927, Page 4

DON’T HAVE A COOKING FACE

One of the aggravating disadvantages of cooking is the effect it has on ones personal appearance. Some days everything \v e do seems calculated to make us rod in the face; whisking • ggs, beating cream, ‘minding’ the roasting joint, looking after the steaming vegetables—even that merciless “quick” oven helps to make us hotter than ever. For one thing, we must try to avoid having to work at top speed; without actually loitering, ther e is a reasonable pace that will let us keep fairly cool and yet get ahead fast enough. It pays very much to get “well forward.” It is that whisking that is done at the last second that wrecks our appearance, (and possibly our tempers). It Is always worth while to get dainty little finishes well out of the way before time presses. Allow, too, ' enough time to dish up comfortably. When approaching th e oven don’t follow up the opening of the door too quickly, so that your face gets the first blast of very hot air. Above all, try not to “think hot thoughts”—as the mind-trainers would say. To begin to’-fuss or feel nervous about things being' a success makes one hotter than anything. Of course, one can’t hope to feel absolutely fresh, but it is possible to remain surprisingly cool, If we giv e ourfort.