The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-08-18

ance, also, for doctor bills saved and fu-
neral expenses obviated. The oven
operates on the principle of the clam
bake. With uniform heat supplied
from burning lamp through barrel
like apparatus divided into various
apartments 1t Is alleged to be possible
to cook simultaneously cereals, fish
and meat stews, pork and beans,
corned beef and cabbage, peas por-
ridge, corn bread and any other kinds
of food that MAY be desired. Indeed,
these things may be prepared at night
and put in the oven with the lamp
lighted so as to provide a low temper
ature, and in the morning the cooked
food is taken out, ready for consump-
ton, without waste. Many kinds of
most appetizing combinations can be
| placed in the oven by workingman
or a working woman after the break
fast is cleared, before leaving the house
to go to work. Returning ut midday
the wholesome dinner is found ready
to be eaten. The bread may then be
mixed in q few minutes, with me-
chanical bread-kneadeT, and placed in
the bread.raiser, so that ut a certain
hour it will be ready for the oven. 1t
can then be baked in the evening, by
the light of the household lamp or
gas burner.
What is especially interesting to this
metropolis Of the coal fields is the as
serhon, upon the testimony of several
hundred witnesses who have learned
to cook in the Aladdin oven, and Of
quite a large number who are now
practieing box and barrel cooking, that
the days of the iron stove and range
are numbered. The use of coal for
cooking will be continued only by
those who do not know how to cook.
All ovens, in the opinion of DR.. Atkin-
son, should be of non-metallic ma
terial; all fuel for cooking should be
oil or gas. Meats, fish, caulihower,
potatoes, onions and custard or other
puddings may then, he argues, be
cooked in the same oven at the same
time without imparting any flavor to
the other or losing any Of its own
especial flavor. The doctor proves his
argument 10y quoting the testimony Of
one lady, who had used his Aladdin
oven, to the effect thatvegetables were
cooked in such way tha-, although
she had been eating them all her life,
she now tasted them for the first time,
and from which the choicest game has
been served in the highest perfection.
at has also been my practice for some
time," this lady writes, "to give, to
parties of eight, dinners cooked in an
oven placed behind my own chair in
the dining room, in the china dishes
in which the food is served. In this
way experiments have been tried,
without single failure, upon persons
who pride themselves on the refine
ment of their tastes. On one occasion
my party numbered twelve, to whom
an eight-course dinner in the regular
conventional order was served at an
average cost of 3 cents per guest for
each course-the total cost Of the meat,
fish and other materials amounting to
less than $2 for twelve persons"
The Aladdin ovS, we are told, in
conclusion, is not a money-making ar
tifce. DR.. Atkinson has already, as
he informs US, expended two dollars in
efforts to further the neglected science
of nutrition for every dollar that he
has got back in return. But antici.
pating q near decline in the average
American family's income, he is ell.
deavOring, as statistician and scien-
tist, to achieve corresponding reduc.
duction in the cost Of living; so that
in any event, we as a people shall be
none the worse off. DIR. Atkinson, il
should be added, is a free trader with
perhaps a troubled conscience; which
mayhap prompts him to offer hi;
economical cooking contrivance as q
partial atonement for the economic
evil that he has wrought.