Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

with scarcely a variation, and the system is not
strengthened. They seem to think the time wasted
which is devoted to obtaining a thorough
experience in the preparation of healthful, palatable
food.
Learn to Cook
Our sisters often do not know how to cook. To
such I would say, I would go to the very best cook
that could be found in the country, and remain
there if necessary for weeks, until I had become
mistress of the art—an intelligent, skillful cook. I
would pursue this course if I were forty years old.
It is your duty to know how to cook, and it is your
duty to teach your daughters to cook. When you
are teaching them the art of cookery, you are
building around them a barrier that will preserve
them from the folly and vice which they may
otherwise be tempted to engage in. I prize my
seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who
knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life
and nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most
important place among the helpers in my family.—
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