The Washington times., 1925-01-05
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
On Cooking Electrically
BY SALLY E. DAVIDSON

/ iof all the household tasks cook
ing is unquestionabiy the most i'm.
portant. and persistent, We may
skip busting, cleaning or even the
washing with only a slight incon-
/ venience to our families and our
| selves, but the one task which we
cannot leave undone Tor single
day is cooking the meals. In spite
of the fact that we cook three
times a day, three hundred ana
sixty-five days, or thereabouts, Il
wear. comparatively few house.
wives have efficient cook stoves
which would reduce the work to q
/. An evidence of this is the fol.
/ lowing letter which r received some
| time ago:
Dear Sally Davidson:
az have a very e large family
which makes big demands on my
time. so much so, in fact. that l
scarcely ever have any time to
myself. or to sew, read or go out.
IL think that the cooking takes up
more of my time than any other
task. I wash and iron electrically
and clean the same way put some
how it never occurred to me tnat
cooking electrically would be just
as much of an Improvement over
i the old way of cooking as the wash
ing. ironing and cleaning. But
friend of mine told me the other
dav that one could do perfectly
wonderful things in the oven of an
electric range or with an electric
fireless cooker. Now, am very
much interested i'm the fact--if 1t is
/ true-that you can put all your
Edinner into the oven and time the
cooking SO that it will be done
exactly on time without ever nav
ling to pay any attention to 1t once
the electricity is turned on. Can
YOU tell me something more about
it? Thank you. -,
Hundreds of Others.
Undoubtedly there are hundreds
of other women elsewhere confront
ed with the same problem as Mrs.
/ s, j. / know / was before starting
| to cook electrically. It seemed that
/ no sooner was through washing
| the dishes from one meal than II
/ was again time to start cooking
| the next one. If I went shopping
or visiting / was continually watch
/ ing the clock. This sort OF condi-
| ton eventually makes the house
/ wife feels,that she has been reduced
| to 4 servant. We must all have
| g. certain amount OF RELIEF from
household routine and If we do not
! have it we begin to resent not only
/ the task but those responsible
the entire family. This condition
| is anything but conducive to happ1.
ness. for resentment Is really the
/ forerunner of dissension. And II
so happens that woman's duty
| is not only to make a comfortable
home but a happy one as well and
| for that reason she should lei
nothing interfere.
Electric Range Helps.
Most women are quick enough
/ to see and accept the advantages
of washing, ironing and cleaning
1 electrically, yet all these tasks made
i nowhere nearly the work that the
1 cooking of three meals a day does
| The electric range oven is really
q tremendous help. Particularly
| in a family that prefers baked
roast or boiled dinners. In a sense
/ such an oven is very much like
O fireles cooker. It is Theoretically
| sealed and after heating 1T to the
/ right temperature for afcertain pc
Rod the food is finished cooking, by
| stored heat. 1t is far more econo
micaI from the point of the fuel
| consumed-electricity Also meats
| do not shrink one half as much
when cooked in the electric oven
as in the oven Of other types oi
| ranges. :. s
Vegetables are cooked in the cleo
trio range oven with very little Or
no water which means that they
contain practically their full
strength after cooking, which is not
| the case when boiled in the usual
1 way. The reason for using only
very little water when cooking
| them in the electric range oven ID
| that it cannot boil away.
| But the chief point of interest to
most housewives is that once the
food has been placed in the cleo.
trio range oven and the proper
heat is switched on one need not
look at the food again until dinner
time approaches. This is because
there are three heats, high me
dunn and low" and also because