Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-12-05
ART OF HAWAIIAN COOKS
ROAST THEIR FOWL TWO DAYS IN
THE EARTH.

story is told of en- interesting method
of cooking among the Hawaiian Island
ers. A hole was dug in the ground,
this was filed with fuel, and when it
burned down to live Goals earth was
thrown over the coal and tramped
down. Meanwhile fowl or animal,
having been dressed, was wrapped in
large palm leaf and laid on the earth
over the Goals. The hole was then
filled up and banked over. Meanwhile
Mrs. Hawaii went about her business,
invited her guests, and after two days
opened the hole and brought out the
food, clean and, the writer says, of
the finest flavor they had ever known.
This is not strange. The simple island
er's was really the most scientific meth
cd of preparing food. The heat was
stored in the walls of the hole and in
the Goals. With this source of stored
heat the food was slowly, automatically
and perfectly cooked. The Indian who
leaves the feathers on his fowl, smears
it with clay and buries it in the Goals
several hours, secures the same result,
! food automatically cooked preserving
all the juices and favors. Any gray
beard who hasn't forgotten that he was
once n boy and used to hook corn and
roast it in husks will swear that there
never was such corn. He is right.
1t is very easy to adapt the Hawaiian
method of automatic cooking for the
| preparation of all sorts of foods in
C, mp. Procure large vessel with a
close fitting lid. In the lid fit a tube
/ about a quarter to a half an inch in
steam and prevent the lifting of the
/ lid. Dig n hole in the ground two feet
deep and large enough to leave be-
tween the vessel and the walls space
Of eight inches. Fill the hole of fuel
and let it burn down to bright coal.
Cover it lightly with earth and set
| your can in the centre of the live
Goals. Sprinkle about an inch of earth
or sand in the bottom of the can. Place
the different articles to be cooked in
vessels. preferably with loose fitting
lids, and set them in the can. You can
/ toph IL gOh NiiOoSt, III IL Iull jars,
food looks so clean and appetizing
cooked in glass. Fit your lid, with its
tube, on the large can. Fill up the
hole and cover up the can with at
least eight inches of earth. Let it alone
four or five hours, or all day, or all
night. When you are ready remove
the dirt, lift out your can, brush off the
lid, look within and 10, dinner Il la
Hawaii perfectly prepared.
| Another simple form of automatic
camp cooking is an adaptation of the
Norwegian feather box, which Is made
with two boxes of such sizes that When
the smaller is placed inside the larger
it will leave n siX-inch space on bottom,
/ top and sides. The space between the
boxes is filled with feathers. A stone
Jar Is placed in the inside box. Two
| gallons of boiling water is poured into
that jar. a nicely dressed goose is put
Into the water, and the box covered
with a feather-capped lid. This is left
alone for a night, and the morning
fnds the goose thoroughly and deli
clusky cooked, with two gallons of gravy
or soup stock. To adapt the Norwegian
method to practical camp cooking take
a box two feet and half long, Is to
"a inches wide and about 1S inches
Nigh; or take the lower half of bar
rel. Cover the box with Is or 90 thick
nesses of newspaper. Set within a YES
sci holding three or four gallons of
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water. Boil the food to be cooked for
two or three minutes in salted water,
then put it into small vessels and set
the vessels in the larger vessel in the
box. Cover the box with a paper
covered lid and throw over the lid
piece of carpet to prevent the escape
of heat where the lid fits onto the box.
In this way all the green vegetables,
fowls, meats and eggs can be cooked.
If you want to be forehanded you
might do this: Before you start out on
your trip make trunk box and line
it with the newspapers, asbestos paper,
or with about two inches OF mineral
wool, which is the best known noncon-
ductor of heat Pack this with cooking
utensils and food. When you reach
the camp unpack, boil the water and
in an hours time you can be cooking
in your trunk and at the same time
fishing, stargazing or visiting with your
best girl.
The automatic principle of the Hawai-
ian and Norwegian cooking can be
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barbecue methods as follows: Dig
trench three feet long, IS inches deep
and IS inches wide. Fill it with wood
and let it burn to live Goals. Here is
your chance for toasting or broiling.
Get yard square or less of one-fourth
to one-half inch furnace screen wire
netting. Place two pieces of strap
iron or gas pipe or poles across the
trench. Lay wire netting over it and
lay on fish. fowl, bread or steak or po-
tatoes. Broiling toasting, roasting
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