Cooking; or, Practical and economical training for those who are to be servants, wives and mothers : management of the kitchen, plain cooking, breadmaking, baking, brewing, pickling, etc. Prepared for the use of the National and Industrial Schools of the Holy Trinity, at Finchley.

Date:
1849
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Credit: Cooking; or, Practical and economical training for those who are to be servants, wives and mothers : management of the kitchen, plain cooking, breadmaking, baking, brewing, pickling, etc. Prepared for the use of the National and Industrial Schools of the Holy Trinity, at Finchley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    who may be qualified, by leisure, inclination, or at- tainments, for such a course of constant superinten- dence. Wbat are the consequences of all this ? Perpetual discomfort and annoyance in families, with incessant change of servants. If ignorance in servants, and their want of practi- cal instruction and education in the performance of household duties, produce these evils in the families by whom they are engaged, how much more perni- cious are their consequences, when they themselves oecome wives and mothers? Without a clean, active, industrious, intelligent, economical wife, what is the poor man's home—what is the home of his children ? A den of filth and misery. Without a suitable com- panion to render his cottage or his apartments at- tractive for himself and his children, the husband and father too often is led to resort for what he looks for in vain at home, solace, to the beer-shop or the gin-shop, where he dissolutely and injuriously ex- pends, in a single evening, a larger portion of his hardly-earned wages than would suffice for the de- cent and comfortable sustenance of himself and all his family (at home,) for half a week. And this is the result of ignorance—of ignorance and loant of method on the part of the woman—of ignorance, the bane of all happiness and virtue. Let girls, therefore, as well as boys, be educated. Let them be thoroughly and practically instructed in all the honsehold duties of humble life. Let them be so educated as to elevate their domestic, moral.