plain-cooking

Updated: May 15, 2025

This Miss Granger called giving them a solid foundation; but as the edifice destined to be erected upon this educational basis was generally of the humblest a career of carpentering, or blacksmithing, or housemaiding, or plain-cooking, for the most part it is doubtful whether that accurate knowledge of the objective case or the longitude of the Sandwich Islands which Miss Granger so resolutely insisted upon, was ever of any great service to the grown-up scholar.

M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon - The Lovels of Arden