'A School of Electric Cookery for Foreign Housekeepers A cooking school for the foreign missy in Shanghai! No one at Home who reads articles on the "Shanghai Mind" and sees the lurid misrepresentations in novels and cinemas that pass for foreign conduct in the. For East will credit it. less, to the contrary, noti ig. it is a fact that the Lewis [School of Electric Cookery in 106 /Siechuen Road has been enlarged Jand re-organized and will re-open Monday and Tuesdsy will be "At, Home" days, when the ladies of Shanghai may visit the school and view the latest methods in cooking by electricity. Mrs. Lewis has set side two days so that ladies with many engagements may take their Jehoice of dates, and she announces that visitors will not only be entertained to both Chinese and foreign refreshments, but will receive [souvenirs of @ culinary nature, The news that so revolutionary an undertaking as a school of electric cookery was projected for Shanghai interested the newsgatherer to the Jextent of visiting the premises, to }see whether the pupils were not high-powered Chinese chefs who, wished to add to their accomplishes, or less Jambitious menials sent" there by long-suffering, yet optimistic em. is actually learning to Mrs. Lewis, the energetic, pro-pri ress and teacher, told the questioner that she had some pupils who: rad learned to cook by out-moded. methods and who now wished to become conversant with the labour— and expense-saving electric stove, but that most of her pupils had not learned to cook, and that all the students were foreign ladies. The former courses were very popaler, 30 much so that Mrs. Lewis is now receiving good reports of her pupils: from every quarter of the globe, and with the up-to-date electrical installations and equipment which she now has at her disposal she hopes to be able to accomplish much more.
The schooL equipment, besides one very large electric stove, consists of ten small electric stoves of the Popular apartment-house type, so that twenty pupils can work at once, two toa stove. In answer toa eneral request one Chinese dish is taught in each day's lesson, and every effort is made to familiarize Pupils with local food products, The putts, of course, pay for the materials used, and the finished pro-duets may be taken home, or, if up to the exacting standard of the school, they may be purchased by the school for the restaurant run in connexion with the school.
The course for beginners is given twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays, from 10.15 to 11.4
Jadvanced pupils, once a week, on Tuesdays from 10-12 and 3-5. For business girls there are classes on Friday evenings from 5.30-7.30 and Jon Saturday morning for school Is. Tuition for the course (three months) costs $15, with the cost of materials addition: one may bay $7 pes month, Pupils may enter at any time. Sometimes as many as five or six dishes may be taught lessen the Frigidaire, instantaneous electric heaters for hot water, an electric bread-slicer and electric mixer. Everythigg is new and glistening in white enamel and cream paint. The restaurant, which is maintained in Jeonnexion with the school, is fitted Jout with red lacquer furniture and natural wood panels. Here one may obtain tiffing, teas and high teas. Catering for teas and dinner parties at the robber's feet. In doing. so held the inside pocket containing bone hundred and sixty-five dollars containing fountain pen and other These were unnoticed by the robbers, who seeing that. the grip was apparently empty, at once began to pick up the things the: had fallen on the Gor.
(Continued next week), is also done here, and cakes or special dishes may be purchased.
In the "good old days" for which we sigh sentimentally, there might have been little call for a school of this sort. To-day electricity has taken much of the drudgery from the kitchen. Moreover the servant problem itself into this erste keepers. The tendency of the day is towards modern apartments which may be run with a minimum service, and many a wife is forced to counter rises in food costs and servants' wages by going into the kitchen herself. Curiously. enough the modern home-maker seems to. enjoy it. What can Shanghai be jooming to when the mistress of the house can manage it herself and produce delicious meals with little, if any, assistance from her domestic staff. "Can it be that the "Shanghai Mind" is concerning itself with kitchens rather than cabarets?
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