Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-03
FlRELEsS COOKER SUMMER
HOUSEHOLD HELP

" HE advent of the firelesS cooker
has done much to relieve the Gu
- linary part of a housewives du-
ties of it's disagreeable feature-that of
standing over a stove to prepare hot
meals, when the kitchen of necessity
gets too warm for physical comfort.
While there are several styles OF
fireless cookers on the market and all
of them reasonable in price, and so
well built that they will last for years.
a home made cooker can be produced
at very little cost. Almost anything
can be cooked in one, and there is alb
solutely no danger of burning the con-
tents.
In the summer when it is so much
more pleasant to be out of doors or
as in California you can be out of
doors most of the time, you will soon
appreciate the advantages of one of
these fireless cookers, and after few
trials would not do without one.
In the past year the number of fire
less cookers put on the market Is as
tonishng. From the cumbersome hay
box" has grown the attractive appear
ing cooker that can be placed in the
dining room, If necessary, without de-
tracing from the furnishings.
It is a veritable godmother for the
woman in large cities who pays an ex-
orbitant price for hall bedroom and
perhaps on that account stints herself
in nutritious food. A accompaniment
box takes up very little space even in
a hall bedroom. After heating cereal,
popping 1t into the cooker the recepta-
Gle can be pushed under the bed, out of
sight, until morning, when 10 and be-
hold! the owner can take the nutritious
hot breakfast from the cooker without
loss of time, as is necessary Wnen pre-
pairing meals over the gas jet, gas plate
or alcohol lamp.
All the long, costly preparations nee
essary In stewing, steaming and broil-
ing are cut down to just the necessary
time to bring the foods to be served
to the point where they are thoroughly
heated. In this way gas or coal bills
are modified, the house is free from
odor or steam and the time spent in
watching the foods used to tidy up the
rooms or to do other necessary work.
The corned beef and cabbage din
ner becomes a delight, as no suspicion
of odor escapes into the room, and by
cooking the vegetables without a cover
when getting them heated for the
cooker, the odor is lessened more than
one-half. 1t seems almost incredible
that onions can be cooking In one COM
partment, while a dainty desert is be-
ing prepared in another without the
slightest possibility of the mingling of
fiavors. But such is the case never
theless.
The cooker is a priceless boon to the
housekeeper during the summer
months, especially to the one whose
family demands hearty. hot food sum-
mer and winter, and in this instance
it becomes an able assistant to the
farmers wife.
Adisorderly kitchen full of steam.
smoke and food odors can be trans
formed into an attractive room, and
leave the Lousekeeper's mind and body
free from worry, giving her periods of
rest in which she can recuperate and be
fresh to complete the self-cooking
meal. The Sunday dinner is cooking
while she is at church and she can
listen in peace to the sermon, as there
is no danger of the dinner being dried
up or burned to a crisp. During the
rush of field work, the cooker filled
with it's load of meat, vegetables and
coffee, is transferred to the scene of
action early in the morning and the
men served their dinner while resting
beneath some shady tree. Especially
is this desirable when the field is a
mile or two from the house and a
walk in the hot sun is dreaded by the
"hands."
Where several kinds of vegetables or
meats are to be cooked. which require
different lengths of time in which they
will become tender, those requiring the
longer time are put over first; when 1t
is time for the others to be put In,
the kettle is taken from the cooker and
these vegetables or meats are heated
thoroughly on coal or gas range just
a sthe first lot were, and then all put In