Smyrna times., 1892-03-02
Highest of all in Leavening Power
Highest Of all in Leavenng Power-Late u s. Govt Report
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AN ITALIAN OVEN.
COntrivances That Prevent Dust. Smoke
and Other AnnOvaDces


COntrivanCeS That Prevent Dust, SmOk,
and Other Annoyances.
When the Italian cooking apparatus i:
used, neither dust dirt, gas, smoke
heavy cake soggy potatoes nor explo
slons ruffieS tempers 1t is neither range
nor simply stove. 1t looks like a tul
covered with shining tiles of blue and
white porcelain 1t is a trife high. and
In order to operate it to the best advan.
tage 1t Is best to stand on a little foot
stool or platform Under the stove is q
semicircular closet reaching up to about
half its height and holding from one To
three sacks (abOut four bushelsl of char
coal On the top are one, two or three
openlngs-little square, boxlike CRATES.
sinking perhaps four or five inches and
about eight inches square. Under the
CRATES are receptacles with doors for
ashes, and in the center is a larger re-
ceptacle 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
uhtll II Is almost tunnel shaped, where
II joins the chimney, is an opening into
the chimney. about the size of a verv
small stovepipe There is ALWAYS a
good draft without dampers
For boiling, few bits of cane are D,7t
IN the square or CRATE over which the
Kettle or the saucepan is to be placed;
then a shovelful of charcoal is put over
the canes, hght is applied and, if YOU
are IN hurry, over the hole is put a Gu
nous contrvance very like a stovepipe
perhaps two feet high, with a funnel at
the top, contrivance that is expressivelv
known IN Italian as Ill diavolor' possibly
because 1t starts the fire in such mar
velously short time
If the articles to be boiled are vegeta-
6les, the kettle is placed directly over
the CRATE, and Ill diavolo" is laid unon
the shelf above If, however some.
thing more delicate is to be cooked a
tripod about three inches high il nnt
over the CRATE and the boiler is placed ON
that' SO that there is not even posi-
6lhty Of burning or scorching; then a
circle OF Goals is put on the outside of
the stove about the boiler, which is
tightly covered. 1t takes from twenty
minutes to half an hour to cook this
way, and everything cooked is cooked
all over.
For baking. the preliminary prepara-
nons are the same, but the dish hold
ing the mixture is placed in an outer
dish OF block tin. and over it is put that
wonderful magician, the "forno di
campagna," that locks like a neck or
half bushel measure, according TO its
size, made Of sheet iron and inverted
There is an opening at one side. nm
which slips the handle of the baking tin
or the saucepan, and over which the
form slips, settling firmly down on the
stove
Under the dish that contains the ma
terial 20 be baked is the charcoal fire in
the CRATE; about it glowing Goals are put
and replenished before the glow dies ont
and on top of the "forno" more GLOWING
Goals are placed and treated in the same
way. Everywhere there is an equal diff.
fusion of heat. Mince pies, sponge cake.
custards, bread and turkeys are Drowned
The "forno" wasn't invented
by an Italian, but by a Frenchman. and
I would be quite possible to use it with
our charcoal stoves. New York Sun