Can You Cook Really GOOD MEALS?

Radio Record, Volume X, Issue 9, 11 September 1936, Page 54

Can You Cook Really

GOOD MEALS?

There’s Money in it as well as HEALTH

BOMB was dropped into the kitchens of New Zealand housewives last week by the Mayor of Wellington (Mr. T. C. A. Hislop) when he roundly attacked the standard of. cooking throughout the country in both homes and ‘hotels. His outspoken remarks have thrown into the Press some equally frank opinions by both men and women-about the quality, variety, and health value of New Zealand meals.

When the tumult and the shouting dies there may, or may not,’ be better meals served as a result of the shock to the conservative complacency of thousands of. home cooks-those who have been attacked for refusiug to take an interest in cooking bealthy foods in palatable form, preferring instead’ to go along in the same old unenlightened way as many housewives _ have done for generations. Thousands of "Radio Record" readers, however, lave taken tlhe opportunity of breaking. away from the oldfashioned ideas of cooking meals. and throtigh the recipe exchange on these pages have been able to: yary_ their. table menus enormously. At the same ‘ time, there is provided an .opportun- *- ity to develop their family ‘dishes along lines of good health, for many of the recipes provided have been designed with a view to giving the greatost amount | of nutrition at reasonable COst. Most of our women readers. by this» time will have bought the "Radio Record’: Cookery Book, containing more than 500 recipes specially selected from the thousands published in this section over a period of. two years, re-_

cipes' which have been submitted..by home cooks and, in many cases, evolved by them. Those who are familigr with this weekly feature know that great: encouragement has been given by "Chef" to those who submit recipes. for mealcooking as well as for baking. In this respect, ‘the "Radio Record" Cookery Book is therefore a storehouse for ‘a wounderful variety of ideas which make for healthier, tastier and more widely assorted dishes for the family table., And now, to encourage | a wider application of’ ‘the sound opportunities this book makes available, . the "Radio Record" offers each month valuable cash

prizes to those who compile the best one-day menu frem recipes ecntained .in cur shilling eocke.', book. The competitions will be judged by a leading dictitian who will, ef course, take into account the bel-: ance’ of eccomponents in each meal 2s well -as ihe nutritive . values of the foods used. The first prize of £3/3/- will be awarded the winner, and

the two next best: entries will earn jone guinea each. _ . . Breakfast, luncheon, and — dinner. Three’ meals which can be tasty and healthful, or monotonous ‘and hi irinful, Here is, a wonderful opportunity for "Radio Record" readers to, exercise their knowledge-and to develoys.it-to-ward better meals; an opportunity to correct .the impression that New Zealand cooks can't ‘cook. There are plenty of housewives who. simply haven't given the preparation of routine meals a second thought. concentrating rather on skill at baking dainty cakes and other lexs valuable’ trifles. With sueh an incentiv as this generous prize offer, "Radio readers who have — the ‘responsibility of keeping a household well fed and healthy will be able to make the study of good. meal balance a doubly. proftitable interest, Whether or not you enter for this’ or one of the succeéding competitions in. this’. sevies, a careful study of the "Radio Record" Cookery Book will be time really well spent, for not only . will yeu be pleasing -your house-

hold, but yeu will be helping to remove from the name. of Néw Zealand’s*home cocks the blot which,’ in the past, has brought. advérse comment, Neglect and disinterest placed the ‘blot there, and care: and en- _ thusiasm for plain- cooking: is the only. thing to efface it. "Profesgor . T. B. Strong, Director. of: the "Home: Science ‘Faculty of Otago’ University, and’ Miss" Vidlet MeMillan, head of the Home Science Tutorial Section, on their arrival in Wellington last week, deplored the condition which ‘left them no choice but to support (Continued on next page.)

"Good Cooking’ | C ompetition Conditions In Brief FIRST. PRIZE ....' £3/3/SECOND PRIZE... £1/1/THIRD PRIZE’... £1/1/One day’s meals (breakfast, luncheon and dinner) to be drawn from recipes in the "‘Radio.Record’’. : Cookery Book. ‘ ‘Entries close on October 7. for the first. ‘competition of ‘this series. Sixpence in stamps must accompany each entry. Address entries to The Editor, "‘N.Z. Radio. Record,’’ Box -1680, Wellington, and endorse the envelope: "Good Cooking."

. Continued from previous page). Mr. Hislop in’ his condemnation of New Zealand cooking. Notwithstanding their stout efforts to educate the . women of the Dominion in ‘and better cooked meals, they said they ‘had found @verywhére 4 pitiable apathy toward the proved knowledge they ‘vere so anxiqus te disseminate. a oe In. this competition, . entries | for which must reach the office the "Radio Record,"" Box 1680, Welling: ton, not later*than October 7,: competitors should send in.a complete day’s menu -providing for:..Breakfast dish or dishes, luncheon fare, and din. ner ‘dishes, the recipes for which are contained in the "Radio Récord" Cookery Book. Competitors may add such things as toast, fruits, nuts, etc., where they are thought desirable. . The following competition in. thie series will be under the same conditions, and entries’ for that will close | garly in November. oo"