Lessons in Cookery: Hand-Book of the National Training School for Cookery (South Kensington, London) (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Eliza Ann Youmans

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1333268696 ISBN 13: 9781333268695

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from Lessons in Cookery: Hand-Book of the National Training School for Cookery (South Kensington, London)

As no cook-book to be found was worth anything to aid the practical instruction proposed, the teachers had to take this matter in hand at the outset. They began by drawing up a careful set of directions to be followed by the learners in doing their work. For each lesson in all the grades each pupil was furnished with a printed sheet of these directions, stating the ingredients of each dish to be prepared, the quantities and separate cost of these ingredients, what was to be done first, what next, and so on through the whole series of operations, nothing being assumed as known, and all the minute steps being indicated in the order that was found best. These guides were necessarily imperfect at first, and were subject to constant re vision and extension as experience suggested corrections; in fact, they embodied the progress of the school in the successful attainment of its object. At each new printing the improvements that had been made were incorporated, and only after years of trial were these guides to practice at length combined and issued in a book-form. The lessons or receipts of this volume were all slowly elaborated in this painstaking manner, and the mode of working proved perfectly successful with the pupils. It was easy and pleasant, yet careful and thorough, and secured a rapid and gratifying proficiency.'

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1333268696
• ISBN 13: 9781333268695
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 412