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Excerpt from A Course in Household Arts, Vol. 1 A Course in Household Arts was prepared in 1902 for the Boston Public Schools of Cookery, and its use in that city was continued up to the time a revised edition of the book was contemplated. The lessons were planned with reference to the requirements of the different grades, no less than with due regard for the wide variation in the number and length of periods devoted to the work. At the same time the material was so arranged that the essentials of the course could be covered in two years - the minimum of time recommended by the Board of Supervisors. This purpose was accomplished by dividing the course into two parts, Series A and B, each containing material for one lesson a week for a year, and each card including a sufficient number of recipes illustrating the principles involved to admit variation to suit differing circumstances and conditions. Allowance was made for needful drill in preliminary work and for the care and storage of materials and utensils customary at the close of the year. Designed primarily for beginners, these lessons have, through a teaching experience of several years, proved satisfactory in grammar, secondary, and higher classes. The theoretical portion was condensed, expanded, simplified, or omitted, and the order of lessons changed according to special needs. It has seemed advisable to include in the present course only simple experiments which can be performed with utensils to be found in an ordinary school kitchen, since excellent laboratory manuals are published for students of domestic science, and opportunity for experimental work varies in different schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.