ABSTRACT
MANY children listen to the story of Cinderella with their sympathy for the heroine warped by the reflection that
at any rate she was given the free run of the kitchen when the family departed for the ball. Most children prefer the kitchen to the nursery or drawing-room. If the cook is an Irishwoman, she will welcome the society of five or six children in the kitchen at all hours, if she is any other nationality she will probably prefer them one at a time or not at all. But it is a pity when a child is debarred from all contact with the practical affairs of the home during its impressionable years, and anyway, the time to Interest children in cookery is when they are under twelve, when their education cannot or should not be all book work, and when it is undiluted bliss to be allowed to shell peas, to pick currants, and whisk eggs. By the time they are eighteen the glamour of life will be re-oriented. But when we are very young there is romance in the oven and the singing kettle.
