How to Prepare Food

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How to Prepare Food

 

Summary of Ellen G. White’s Teachings by Robert Cohen

(Excerpted from the http://www.notmilk.com newsletter,

November 25, 2004) See below for book related book

reference, The Hygienic Cook Book.

 

 

Rule #1

 

" Foods that are healthful and life sustaining are

to be

prepared, that men and women will not need to eat

meat. "

(1902)

 

Rule #2

 

" It is a religious duty for those who cook to

learn how to

prepare healthful food in different ways, so that

it may be

eaten with enjoyment. Mothers should teach their

children how

to cook. What branch of the education of a young

lady can be

so important as this? The eating has to do with

the life. It

is highly essential that the art of cookery be

considered one

of the most important branches of education.

There are but few

good cooks. "

(1868)

 

Rule #3

 

" Before children take lessons on the organ or the

piano they

should be given lessons in cooking. The work of

learning to

cook need not exclude music, but to learn music

is of less

importance than to learn how to prepare food that

is wholesome

and appetizing. "

(1868)

 

Rule #4

 

" Do not neglect to teach your children how to

cook. In doing

so, you impart to them principles which they must

have in their

religious education. In giving your children

lessons in physiology,

and teaching them how to cook with simplicity and

yet with skill,

you are laying the foundation for the most useful

branches of

education. Skill is required to make good light

bread. "

(1870)

 

Rule #5

 

" It is our wisdom to prepare simple, inexpensive,

healthful

foods. Many of our people are poor, and healthful

foods are

to be provided that can be supplied at prices

that the poor

can afford to pay. It is the Lord's design that

the poorest

people in every place shall be supplied with

inexpensive,

healthful foods. In many places industries for

the manufacture

of these foods are to be established. That which

is a blessing

to the work in one place will be a blessing in

another place

where money is very much harder to obtain. "

(1905)

 

Rule #6

 

" There is much to be learned regarding the

preparation of

healthful foods. Foods that are perfectly

healthful and yet

inexpensive are to be made. To the poor the

gospel of health

is to be preached. In the manufacture of these

foods, ways

will be opened up whereby those who accept the

truth and

lose their work, will be able to earn a living. "

(1901)

 

Rule #7

 

" As the truth is presented in new places, lessons

should be given

in hygienic cookery. Teach the people how they

may live without

the use of flesh meats. Teach them the simplicity

of living. "

(1906)

 

Rule #8

 

" Skillful teachers should show the people how to

utilize to the

very best advantage the products that they can

raise or secure

in their section of the country. Thus the poor,

as well as those

in better circumstances, can learn to live

healthfully. "

(1902)

 

Rule #9

 

" Greater efforts should be put forth to educate

the people in

the principles of health reform. Cooking schools

should be

established, and house-to-house instruction

should be given

in the art of cooking wholesome food. Old and

young should

learn how to cook more simply. Wherever the truth

is presented,

the people are to be taught how to prepare food

in a simple,

yet appetizing way. They are to be shown that a

nourishing diet

can be provided without the use of flesh foods. "

(1909)

 

Rule #10

 

" The science of cooking is not a small matter.

The skilful

preparation of food is one of the most essential

arts. It

should be regarded as among the most valuable of

all the arts,

because it is so closely connected with the life.

Both physical

and mental strength depend to a great degree upon

the food we

eat; therefore the one who prepares the food

occupies an

important and elevated position. "

(1913)

 

 

Robert Cohen

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