Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-06-30
FIRELESS COOKER
DECLAREDTOBE
A REALITY
DEPT OF AGRICULTURE
HAS A NEW SCHEME
Norwegian System Of Slow
Cooking Is Declared to Be
Practical in American House
keeping,

keeping,
Washington, DC, june 2S-tf there
IS anything THAT the housewife dreams
about in the summer time IL 81 a fire
Jess cooker, and thar IS just what the
department Of agriculture Is introduc-
ing 10 the farming community in one
of its bulletins. OF course. it sounds
almost TOO good TO be true, but tho
experiments have been made. and the
nreless cooker has delivered the goods.
The theory is hat man. eataDles,
especially those that are boiled, are
better when cooked for a long time
a. a low temperature than when theN
are cooked for "A hor time at "a high
ttmuerature Vegetables Keep more Of
chair flavor and nutrlmeut boy tho SLOW
method, y meats Of al kinds are
moro tender and palatablc. And an
utbcr JOY ia that q mere traction 81
tho fucl o. used in the process.
The coutriyance that the depart
ment has been experimenting with
camc4 from Norway. and Is known a.
ihp "hay box cooker" ANY man can
make one for himself.
Nothing New About II.
THE cooker has been in use In Nor
AHMN lVH AFiAM NAtf'Nf 49, 'NF fF"
the Norwegian exhibit at tho Paris eN.
Inhibition IN 1867. It Is simply "a box.
lined thicltiy with straw or hay or
newspapers. with % cloae-fttiug nest
that VIII hold q tightly covered bucket
The buekct contains a chicken or a
piece of meat or anything else thai
Is 40 be cooked. The bucket IS placed
on d IRE. the contents brought To a
boil and then the bucket rs tightly
covered. dropped into The nest IN the
hay cooker and covered up. II IS all
lowed to stay there without any other
source Of heat two or three Times as
long as would he ordinarily required
The heat of the boiling water i8 re-
tainod 10y the hay-6lled hos, and the
cooking a. done at "A minimum cNpCu-
dlturc of fuel and labor.
The bulletin says that The scheme
~ siuw rookiHF - ~ go 90" '"nht
Rumfurd having devised "a cOulliug
boy 81 much The same sort many yeaf5
ano 70 has also been found th9i eggs
placed Ia boiling water, covered aud
allowed 40 alHnd were perfectly
eookod by the time they were cool
enough TO eat.
Tho practical application of the
cooker 20 family economy rs ia the
preparation OF meats, vegetables, mae
aroui and cereals that arc The better
for long, slow cooking, The Wuter
muy be- brought to "a boil Hi night aud
the food placed In the h~ay-cookcr
whore h viii be- hot and rcldy for
breakfast In the morning. SOUP made
in the Same way Goo tho rArlY morning
i4 tn urine condition tor dinner N
fact. almost anything that Is wanted
for dinner can Cooked In the morning
and VIII De ready by tho tinnc dinuef
So wanted. without keeping up the IRE
az am a single burner of an oil or
Ra4 stove that WIN buil the water VIII
sVfr- ga. gNr % LHrl.IIr. t4rII "a md
ID can hc -ol away in the hay box ana
allowed 10 cook itself withou'
heating up the dining room or Kitchen.
\ Course Dinner Possible.
~ several rocoptacles arc to be used
~ me spmo time for meat and dlIief-
eut sorts of vegetables more thah one
bucket needs - bc used In Tact nm
old fashioned ire chest thNt VIII hold
three or four buckets I'm g row can be
djyidcd Off into nests. tightly packed
with felt on paper n WIN q lnlck
felt covering inside The buckets
must have Tight htting TIN covers
win such an arrangement 1t Is said
that "A whole mcal can be- easily and
economically prepared with one bolt
ing az water and without n smell or
heat
Tho German government has been
experimenting with similar cookers
fur thc benefit of poor families having
a. .ronomize Ia their fuel bills. The
American army has also been trying
fhtm. mot from motives of economy.
for convenience. II has been
found that beans, vegetables and any
ching else that the army had To cook
.tu Do, inudod into the nrcless cookers
when camp is broken in the morning
and these cookers can he hauled by
tho transport wagons an day n a
hot. ~Wrl-tuokcd dinner produced,
ready to serve whon camp is made IN