This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ... the cookery and laundry work has to be carried out under very strict Government regulations if it is to earn a grant at all, the syllabuses for cookery and laundry, to be found in Appendix I., will be found to be far more precise than the syllabuses of hand-work for boys. But they will probably strike people as ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ... the cookery and laundry work has to be carried out under very strict Government regulations if it is to earn a grant at all, the syllabuses for cookery and laundry, to be found in Appendix I., will be found to be far more precise than the syllabuses of hand-work for boys. But they will probably strike people as reasonable enough in themselves, and not, as is the danger with set schemes, too formal and methodical. The cookery courses comprise three stages, with an alternative preliminary stage for schools in poor localities where girls have little or no knowledge of the simplest utensils for cooking. Only two of these stages are taken by any particular girl in a single school year; and the same is the case with the shorter laundry courses, also with their three stages, each about half as long as the cookery stage, only two of which are taken by one girl in any particular school year. Of recent years a very useful variation of this training has been introduced, namely, the Combined Domestic Subjects Course, comprising cookery, laundry work, and housewifery. A girl can take this combined course after she has passed through Stage I. in both cookery and laundry work, and to enable the girls to reap the admitted advantage of a concentrated course each set spends a month on end in the centre. The instruction is probably more homelike and practical in connection with the Combined Domestic Subjects Course than with the more formal cookery and laundry courses, especially in those centres where teachers are actually in residence and the pupils undertake the whole work of the house. The cookery becomes more distinctively household or cottage cookery, and the laundry work may almost be dignified by the term washing; in addition there is the invaluable practice under sk...
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