The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-04-02
An ITALIAN OVEN.
Coutrivsncss That Prevent Dust, Smoke
and Other Annoynnces.

and other AnnOynnces.
When the italian cooking apparatus Is
used, neither dust. dirt, gas, smoke,
heavy cake, soggy potatoes nor explo-
sions ruffies tempers. 1t is neither range
nor simply stove. 1t looks like a tub
covered with shining tiles OF blue and
white porcelain 1t is a tritie high, and
In order to operate it to the best advan-
tage it is best to stand on a little foot.
stool or platform. Under the stove is a
semicircular closet reaching up to about
half its height and holding from one to
three sacks (about four bushels) of char.
coal. On the top are one, two or three
openings-little square, boxlike CRATES,
sinking perhaps four or five inches and
about eight inches square. Under the
CRATES are rcceptacles with doors for
ashes, and in the center is O larger re.
ccptacle for heating dishes.
Over the stove and about half way up
the wall is a canopy, shaped like the
stove at the bottom, but gradually mar
rowing to the top at the front and side
until it is almost tunnel shaped. where
it joins the chimney, is an opening into
the chimney, about the size OF q very
small %stovepipe. There is always a
good draft without hampers.
For boiling, a few bits of cane are put
in the square or crate over which the
kettle or the saucepan Is to be placed
then Il shovelful of charcoal is put ovel
the canes, IA light is applied and, if you
are in Il hurry. over the hole is put a Gu
rious contrivance very like a stovopipe
perhaps two feet high. with a funne a
|, the top, contrivanco that is expressivel,
I known in Italian as Ill diavolo! posslbl,
because it starts the fire in such Il mar
1 ~velously short time.
e If the articles to be boiled are vegeta
t blcs, the kettle is placed directly owe
+ the CRATE, and I'll diavolo" is laid upol
e the shelf above. II, however, some
$ thing moro delicate is to be cooked,
l. tripod about three inches high is pu
$ over the CRATE and the boiler is placed o
that, so that there is not even q poss'
u bility of burning or scOrching; then
Il circle of Goals is put or the outside {
II the stove about the boiler. which
h tightly covered. 1t takes from twent
minutes to half an hour to cook TIL
t. way, and everything cooked is cooke
10 all over.
For baking, the preliminary prepar'
tons are the same. but the dish holt
ing the mixture is placed in an out'
dish of block tin, and over it is put tn;
wonderful magician, the "forno
campagna," that locks like a peck
Il half bushel measure, according to |
size, made of sheet iron and inverte
" There Is an opening at one side, l
which slips the handle Of the baking t
or the saucepan, and over which Il
form slips, settling firmly down on Il
stove.
h. Under the dish chat contains the m
" terial to be baked is the charcoal fire
ne the CRATE; about it glowing Goals are p
and replenished before the glow dies OF
and on top of the ''forno" more CLOWN
st Goals are placed and treated in the sal
T. way, Everywhere there is an equal d
Is fusion of heat. Mince pies, sponge cal
W custards, bread and turkeys are brown
perfectly. The ''forno" wasn't invent
Ne by an Italian, but by n Freedman, a
IT, 1t would be quite possible TO use it wi
e, our charcoal stoves. Now York Sun.