Clinton News-Record, 1977-02-03, Page 12ilitzehrs
PAGE 12--CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1977
Cooks once boiled..
in
destroyed factory
By Chris Zdeb incident where a student
When flames destroyed working on a recipe for 10-15
Huron Acoustics in Vanastra gallons of mayonnaise, was
last week, they also destroyed .having- difficulty in getting
about 15 years of memories the batch to thicken. Left on
for Clinton's John Fisher and ' his own without benefit of
hundreds of other men like instructor, the student was
him living throughout the trying to figure out a solution
world. to. his plight when a fellow
Mr. Fisher's memories student passed by and
date back to July 5, 1954, suggested that corn starch be
when be left the Royal added to the mixture Jo do the
Canadian Armed Forces base job.
in Penfold, Alta., for a 2;300 Heavy stirring and three.
mile motor trip, destination pounds of corn starch later,
Clinton. the mayonnaise remained
Ten days later, the former unthickened.
RCAF Sergeant had arrived Students may not have
to take part in history by always been . cooking
becoming one of 16 in- naturals, but then some in-
structors to begin teaching at structors weren't all that
the No. 1 School of Food infallible themselves.
Services, the Air Force's first Mr. Fisher said a student
special school to train its was in the middle of
cooks to serve better food to preparing soup when an in -
RCAF personnel. • structor stopped ' around to
Long before Huron sample the 'wares'.
Acoustics took over the "Not enough salt," was the
premises, the H-shaped analysis. The student, who
building was home a to hun- had worked in his father's
dreds of cook trainees. restaurant, felt the soup had
The first class of students been salted to taste but
began their 12 -week 'cooking obliged the waiting instructor
course in September 1954. by dipping his hand into the
The' students were either salt bin and sprinkling an
studying to be cooks or food imaginary amount of salt
service attendants. over the broth.
As cooks, they were trained "Much better," was the
in the basic methods of analysis on second tasting.
cooking. Training began in a All practical work and
regular classroom, where classroom training em -
practical demonstrations phasized the RCAF's
were given for eight weeks of requirement of micro -
the course. The remaining cleanliness. If there Was a
study time was used for sloppy, careless cook in any
gaining. practical experience of the school's classes, he
in foodpreparation. soon realized the meaning of
As prospective food service dirt and bacteria in the kit -
attendants, the trainees chen, courtesy of Flight
learned to help the cooks in Sergeant Ray Gibbon. The
basic food preparation, as school's sanitation instructor
well as to plan formal dinners kept cultures formed from
and functions. smears taken from dishes
Although cooking and food and contaminated with
preparation have human hair, bacteria from a
traditionally been designated cough and a fly.
woman's work, there were no Graduates from the 12 -
women in the first classes of week course entered the
20 students to begin training working field as a helper in
at the school. one of the RCAF's kitchens.
. "It was decided that only Cooking in the Air Force for
men would be trained in the 20 years put , a man on par
original school," Mr. Fisher with the master chef of
said, "but a recruiting officer civilian life.
inadvertently signed up three The one advantage of
women, before he 'became training to be a student cook,
aware of the ruling." was that•the student learned a
With the unexpected trade that would be useful to
arrival of three women on the him in civilian life, and Mr.
school's doorstep, the original Fisher estimated about 90
decision of men only was percent of the men who
altered, allowing s for future completed the Corporal and
female students. Sergeant's rank in cooking,
"From World War II until went on to acquire cooking
that mistake was made," Mr. related jobs on being
Fisher said, "there were no discharged from the Air
woman cooks in the RCAF Force.
because of the heavy and hot After initial graduation, a
work involved in kitchen student could return at in -
duties." tervals of 2-5 years practical
"From Apprentice to Chef experience to retrain in
with the RCAF" became the senior cook's service, and
slogan for the No. 1 School of senior supervision; before
Food Services, and that's just attaining Cpl. or Sgt.'s status.
what the school's instructors The men, who signed up for
delivered on graduation day. the cook's course, came from
The students were trained all levels and all walks of life,
in baking, butchery, kitchen Mr. Fisher said, though most
sanitation and other basics of responded to recruitment
food preparation to acquire notices which one day
knowledge of how to prepare promised a man the chance to
a complete meal, rather than run his own mess.
cooking specialization. With classes of 20 starting
There was even instruction to train at the school every
in the type of cooking done at four weeks, about 200
pioneer stations where the students were enrolled at the
model kitchen equipment school at any one time. It
used (ovens capable of made for a lot of RCAF cooks,
baking 600 cookies at one and a lot of good RCAF
time) in the school was
unavailable.
Learning to cook with
quantities to feed 100 people, sferred to Camp Borden,
any "boo-boos" made by the which had services duplicate
rookies, were obviously to the ones offered at the
massive ones. Clinton Air Base.
Mr. Fisher recalled one After sitting vacant for a
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cooking.
In 1967, the No. 1 School of
Food Services was tran-
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The sign placed outside the Clinton Commercial Printers in a six-foot snow bank Tuesday ,
aptly describes the situation in the area during the last week. (News -Record photo)
number of
time mess
renovated
Acoustics.
years, the one -
was bought and
to house Huron
A fire in
November 1973 destroyed
part of the original school, but,
last week's fire proved to be
too great for the old building
to weather.
The school which once
cooked a lot of geese has had
its own goose cooked.
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