Evening star., 1921-05-13
Health and Thrift in the Home

dinner might be prepared In a two
compartment cooker Soup, veal cut
let's. mashed potatoes. carrots and
rice pudding, with the veal outlets
and rice pudding IN one side Of the
cocker. and the soup, potatoes and
carrots in the other side, For the
veal outlets and the rice pudding use
the double utensils with two radiators.
For tho soup, potatoes and carrots
use the tr3pliCate utensils with one
radiator.
How How Must the Rndiator. Ref
How hot TO heat the radiators is
a matter OF importance II good re-
suits are desired and the housewife
should learn to use one Of tho Their
mometers especially constructed for
use on radiators. These thermometers
are not expensive. and in their use
ues the Secret Of Successful fireless
cooh,nE' rabies Of temperatures are
lu'N shed with such thermometers.
showing the exact dccras to which a
rauistor should b" heated for the
article or food to be cooked and the
method employed for cooking it.
II lorced 10 do without a ther-
noHeteE the flour test may be used.
Drop pinch Of flour on the radiator:
IL II browns Immediately a very light
brown. the heat is sufficient to bake
c'ho or bread, apples or macaroni
ana chHcse; if the -four browns i'm
i''u1aittE TO golden brown. the
laulaloE Is not enough to bake pis or
meat plf, Potatoes. fish, meat loaf.
nasn' si' steam or boil fish, boil meat.
COOK cereals, meat, stewS. soups
N"eelah4es. steam bread and puddingf
or nakf most puddines and custards:
!" ch"co!ate-b brown color indicates
temperature hot enough to roast meat
Ho" t" Make FfreIess Cooker.
Sood sized garbage pail makes an
excellent frciess cooker Line il
win asbestos paper and pack several
ayers or ;it newspapers around the sides
ana Al IN" lotion. I'Se one large
lShtIy covered receptacle to hold the
lood. or three small ones Cover the
Top With Il circle Of asbestos paper
ana several layers of newspapers and
make round thick cushion to place
Just over the outside cover of the
pan containing the food. then put on
tlshtIy tn" garbage pail cover. This
IS IA very practical, convenient cooker
AT sEa.I cost. In it you can do every
klnd Of cooking except bake and
fry.
b4tt"r crate or any strong box
Will also MAI very useful fircirSS
cooker. The box or crate. d bundle
OF excelsior. an cnamcled firclesS
cooker kettle and a cushion the size
OF tn" crat" or box are the necessary
nattrlals Finish with n Closely
htted cover with places cut out on
IN" sides so that it may be lifted with
ease. Line the crate carefully with
asbe stns paper and newspapers. Put
IN, little by little, Il fOur-inCh layer
OF excelsior in the bottom of the
crate. Make it smooth and solid
Place the kettle on this in the center
Of the crate and pack around il with
the excelsior. tapping to make it
very solid. When filled to the rim
OF the kettle. remove the kettle and
then put it back. If the form is so
smooth and solid that none of the
fiber gets out of order as YOU re-
move and replace the kettle. the
work has been we'll done. However,
it is a good plan to place a layer
of asbestos paper next TO tn" kettle.
then the kettle viii move smoothly in
and out. Make cushion thick
enough and of a length and breadth
exactly to fill the remainder of the
space between the cover of the box
and the top of the kettle and excel
Sior.
All food placed in these two home
mad" freI"SS cookers must first boil
for five or ten minutes. and then be
Immediately placed in the cooker and
made alright. as these home made
cookers have no hot radiators TO sup
oily heat. However, the food viii
cook if il is placed in when boiling
hot and the cooker is sealed tight.