[Sca-cooks] Mission Impossible

[Mark.S Harris]

Elizabeth asked about children in the kitchen:
>    Being child-less myself, I'm a little at a loss to know what your
>average five-year old can handle as far as cooking goes--for example, we
>were putting the tins in the oven, and his arms are too short to reach
>the racks easily (Doh!)

We have discussed period cooking for children before as well as
whether children should be allowed in the kitchen during feast
preperation. Perhaps these files might be a help to you.
In the CHILDREN section:
p-cook-child-msg  (13K)  6/ 8/00    Period cooking for children.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/CHILDREN/p-cook-child-msg.html
chd-ck-clsses-msg (12K)  1/ 3/01    Children's cooking classes.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/CHILDREN/chd-ck-clsses-msg.html
<not quite the same, but similar)

In the FEASTS section:
child-kitchen-msg (25K) 11/22/00    Having children in the kitchen
during feast
                                       preperation.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FEASTS/child-kitchen-msg.html