The Washington times., 1924-07-15
EKPERT IS GIVEN
SURPRISE BY
BRIDE
Devises Many Economical
Methods by Experiments
in Electric Cookery
BY STELLA ELIZABETH
DELAND.

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fools rush In where angels fear
to tread" / unused as the door
closed upon my new neighbor, a
bride OF less than a month. The
conversation had quite naturally
drifted to the ever-interesting art
Of cooking and the high cost Of
foodstuffs. The young woman sur
prised me with her apparent long
Medicines. The few years she had
spent in business taught her how
difficult it was to earn money:
hence she was practicing strict
economy In spending her husbands
money.
Speaking Of economy" she said,
IT must tell you the perfectly mar
velous idea stumbled upon the
other day in cooking b lamb stew.
We both love boiled food of all
kinds. Consequently have been
experimenting with everything that
can be put into a pot and cooked in
the oven Of my electric range. You
have been using yours 30 long that
perhaps 1t is no novelty to ybu, but
somehow ! can't quite get oyer the
wonder of cooking all sorts Of things
In the oven. have been doing it
ever since you told me about it and
it works fine.
Yes, OF course, but don't keep
me in suspense" ! begged.
Still Experimenting.
"I'm coming to that. AS / war
saying. I am still experimenting
with the oven. but I forgot that
the water does not boil away as it
does when cooking on other stoves
and so anticipating that at least
half Of it would boil away, / more
than covered the meat with water.
l put q tablespoonful Of salt in the
water, a half teaspoonfuI of pepper,
several small onions, six carrots, a
small can of tomatoes and put 1t
into the oven which had prev
iously heated to a temperature Of
$50 degrees. When this began to
boil ! switched the electricity to
low" heat and left the stew sim
mering for an hour and q half,
|
shelled peas, six medium sized pota-
toes, q stalk Of celery and little
chopped parsley; returned the
stew to the oven and after fifteen
minutes of medium" heat switch
ed off the electricity altogether and
left the stew to finish cooking by
the stored featgof the oven.
when I took the stew out Of the
- ~ 80 HAnI
OF the water cooked away. Imagine
tically all there"
IS Her enthusiasm was so contagious
that / urged her to go on.
at was then got the big idea
Of taking the over supply of stock
and keeping it for soun the next
day. But the stew was so good
that my husband insisted on my
heating 1t over for dinner the next
day and SO out of one cooking had
two dinners and enough soup for
the third. Wasn't that some
economy" she laughed.
Indeed It was, but tell me, how
did you manage to get the stock so
nutritious-what was the trick?"
GrandmOther's Secret.
''That IL little secret my grand
mother taught me-she left me a
little book full of good recipes and
any number Of such ideas and hints
on the way to buy meat.
"You see instead of just buying
two pounds Of stewing lamb I pur-
chased pound and half Of lamb
and half a pound Of veal; also
asked the butcher to send me a
couple Of good veal bones with
plenty of gristle on them. This
and the marvellous way the electric
oven boiled 1t did the trick"
Gracious, I thought only my
grandmother and / were the proud
possessors Of this secret, and here
you surprise me with ftp I laughed.
wives would be glad to know about
this"
"They certainly would, Mrs. De.
land, and will send over the little
book for you to look over. Some Of
our grandmothers' perfectly good
ideas cooked in the modern way
by electricity cut even bettsr
than they did in their day." she
commented.
by the way, was the lamb stew
all you gave your husband for
dinner7"
"It was all he wanted. but I
made him eat some lettuce salad
with French dressing. And, of
course. we always have coffee, but
I make that directly at the table
with my electric percolator."
II foresee my rival In household
economics" ] laughed as she was
leaving.