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In the twentieth century, the domestic skills of rural women was subject to a special form of education. This marked a historical shift in how knowledge of rural domesticity was taught and conceptualized. Passed-down knowledge that had served generations of women in agriculture was discreditet and replaced by a scientific approach to rural homemaking known as rural domestic education. This chapter examines rural domestic education in Northwestern Europe and links the rise, development and demise of this type of schooling to the interest community of actors, groups and institutions in the region that held stake in the education of rural homemakers. It shows that the social history of rural domestic education in Northwestern Europe followed structural changes in agriculture and rural life in the twentieth century. Actors, reacting to a changing rural scenery, turned to rural domestic education to mediate modernity in the realm of the farm household.