The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-01-18
COOKING DONE
! MUCH EASIER
Fireless Cooker Saves Time
and Costs Little When
Made at Home
HAVE YOU ONE IN YOUR HOUSE?

The Directions Here Given Are Easily
Followed, Since Only a Few Pur
chased Articles Are Needed to Help
You Make Flreiess Cooker at Home,
"Wlll It burn mel" asked the child
when called upon to move nreless
cooker. The very idea Of q cooker
implied heat to the child's mind.
1t takes heat to cook in the frelesa
cooker, but the principle Of cooking ID
. little different from that of cooking
on top Of the stove. Many years ago
people heated stones and dropped
them into Q bag or kettle containing
food, the hot stones cooking the food.
Sometimes an iron pot. with a cover
was placed in a hole dug In the
ground and covered with grass and
leaves. This kept the heat in the food
and cooked II.
Food that Is cooked in a freless
cooker IL heated to a boiling point and
sometimes cooked for q few minutes,
but at ell events 1t is thoroly heated,
then placed in the cooker which Is 90
constructed as to keep all of this heat
confined In the utensil containing the
food. The heat retained In the cook.
or for a long time thoroly cooks the
food.
Material needed for making cook.
or: boz, bucket or can; one piece Of
sine OF tin; asbestos paper; material
Cor filing; metal can with cover;
stone Tor heating; cooking utensils;
button hook; nour and water; paste;
hinges and fasteners.
An old trunk, . dry goods boz. .
candy bucket or lard can, may be
used to make fireless cooker. A
wooden box for homemade cooker
is preferable to = metal one, because It
keeps the heat In better than metal
does, and II painted nicely will be
kept clean easily. The size of the box
will depend upon how much cooking 10
to be done in the cooker, but for Q
family Of six, q boz 80 inches long, Is
inches wide and IA inches deep viii be
ample, and, II this cannot DO had, Q
candy bucket will be q great help, or
two can be made IL necessary. The
square box is preferable, however, a.
the cover ID more easily made. The
above measurements are inside ones.
In selecting the material for the
cooker. hrst have In mind the size Of
the cooking utensils to be used. Thsa
Cad Q tin bucket with q lid. in wAicA
sn iron stove lid or soapstone raai.
ator cen be placed and one which, %
the same time will hold ths cooking
Utensils to be used. Much time aAl
trouble will be saved II these things
ere thought OF Grst Having selected
those articles. the outside boz sAsuld
be large enough 10 allow the covered
bucket 10 set inside, after there hsa
been at least three inches OF nliins
on the bottom, around the sides ani
on top Of the tin bucket. This metal
bucket may be OF aluminium, II one
cares 10 spend the money for It. bu'
. tin one win answer the purpose
very well.
The filling may be OF sawdust, cork.
paper torn In small pieces, feathers,
hay, or excelsior. Having selected all
the materials, one IL ready to proceed
as follows: Cover the tin bucket all
around and on the bottom with ashes
tos paper. This win keep the heat In
the bucket and prevent the cooker
from catching IRE (should there hap
pen to be at any time q hole in the
bucket) The bucket should be a.
free from seams and crevssses IS pos.
sibls. Next cover the bottom, sides
and top OF the wooden box or bucket
with thin asbestos paper. Next, all
In the packing. This must be done
with great care, as many q cooker has
proved inefficient because 1t was poor
ly packed. Fill in the bottom Of the
box or bucket with three inches Of the
packing, pounded IN ugnt.
Place the asbestos covered bucket
In the center filing around the sides,
packing closely, and cover with ashes.
tos cut to fit around the bucket. Cut
q piece Of zinc, tin or asbestos to at
the top, allowing hole for the buck.
ct to come thru. Zinc will not rust
and Is easily cleaned and often easily
obtained. Tin is good. Asbestos viii
soil and win have to be changed fire.
quently.
This completed. make a cushion
three inches thick. Cover II with ma
terial that IL easily cleaned. Next see
to It that the lid Ats on tight, for much
OF the efficiency Of the cooker depends
upon this. II boz is used. hinges
and clamp are good. The one thing
TO keep In mind Ia that after getting
the food hot, one must not let that
heat escape.-Genevs Conway, Spec
ialist In Home Economies, Division Of