Blanche Fladoes Presenting Gold Medal Flour Cooking School, Nov. 24-25, 1924

Cooking School to be Conducted Here Next Week. . . Miss Fladoes Courses Under Auspices Woman’s Club; All Ladies and Girls Invited. . . Will Be Held at School

Women of Smithfield and Johnston county are invited to attend the Gold Medal Cooking School which is to be held in the auditorium of the Smithfield High School Nov. 24-26. This school will be conducted by Miss Karen Fladoes of the Gold Medal Service Department of Washburn Crosby Company, millers of Gold Medal Flour. The classes will begin at 3 o’clock each afternoon. There will be no admission charged, and it is hoped that the women of the towns and surrounding country will attend this school.

The Gold Medal Cooking schools are famous in home economics circles for the quality of instruction given them as well as the interest they arouse in all communities. This is the same school which was recently put on in Raleigh under the auspices of The News & Observer. In the school to be held in Smithfield, the subjects to be dealt with included unusual desserts, salads, cakes, icing, teas and party suggestions.

Miss Fladoes, who will personally direct the school, is a graduate of Stout Institute and has had post-graduate work at Columbia University, majoring in Home Economics in in both colleges. For several years she has been engaged in conducting schools and giving lecturers and demonstrations in the Middle West. She has a thorough knowledge of her subject and a charming personality as well, which makes her a host of friends in every city she conducts these classes.

All of the work will be of an extremely practical nature. At the Gold Medal schools nothing is done or demonstrated which the average woman could not carry out in her own home. Throughout, Miss Fladoes emphasized the need of efficiency in the kitchen as much as in the factory or office, and the fact that there are right and wrong ways of doing things and that the right is always much easier. Recipes covering the preparation of the dishes demonstrated as well as many others will be given away at each class.

The women of the community are invited not only to attend these schools but to bring their questions and culinary problems to Miss Fladoes. After each class she conducts an informal session during which delights in meeting her audience personally and talking over their household worries with them.

To see a photograph of Miss Fladoes, go to: newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073982/1924-11-18/ed-1/seq-1/#words=NOVEMBER+18%2C+1924

From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 1924