FIRELESS COOKER The United States Fireless Cooker attracted my attention and has my indorsements for three reasons: First, it is cheap, practical, and eas ily manipulated; second, it has no fabric or other lining to require extra care or to become foul; and last, be cause the inner vessel can be renewed at any time at little cost. The whole contrivance is so simple, so perfect, so easily understood, that it can be manipulated by a child.
The idea of cooking without fire should meet with approval from every housewife. It seems strange at first—paradoxical, almost a joke —but when the fact is demonstrated by an easily managed, simple con trivance, the truth is confirmed--we can really cook without fire. And not one, but many kinds of food.
Cooks have always known that food would keep hot for a long time if carefully covered. This fact in duced some one to go just a step beyond and make a nonconducting cover that would retain the heat at a uniform temperature for many hours; and this is the principle of the fireless cooker.
Meats retain their flavor, and be come tender more quickly if cooked below the boiling point. " Boiled " meats, to be perfect, should, after the first boiling, be cooked at a tem perature of 180'; to maintain this temperature over a fire requires eter nal vigilance, and even then is diffi cult to control. With a fireless cooker one need not give the meat a thought from the time it goes in the cooker until time for dinner.
It is to be especially recommended for vegetables that emit an odor while cooking, as cabbage, cauliflower, onions, and sauerkraut. Imagine surprising your family with a cab bage or sauerkraut dinner! It is worth double its cost for ce reals alone. One may have a well cooked cereal without fire or rush in the morning. Your breakfasts can be put on the table in ten minutes.
It saves time. One can prepare dinner while the breakfast dishes are being washed. When ready to leave the kitchen, put the cooking vessel with its boiling contents in the cook er and go where you please until din ner time.
Foods do not become overcooked nor water-soaked if the dinner, from necessity, is pushed on an extra hour. Do not open the cooker; let it alone until you are ready to serve its con tents. Nothing can be overdone
when cooked in the United States Fireless Cooker.
It retains the nutrition and the natural flavors of all foods. There is no chance for escape.
It does away with that most un pleasant pot washing. It saves half the usual fuel.
It saves the housewife hours of time and worry.
It makes tough meat tender and palatable, and in this way saves many a dollar in a year in the cost of meat alone.
It is indispensable to the summer camp, house boat, or yacht. The fish erman or the camper may stay out an extra hour without keeping any one waiting or spoiling the dinner.
To insure the best results with the United States Fireless Cooker, make sure that all foods are boiling hot in the cooking vessel when you place it in the cooker. The object of the cooker is simply to maintain the heat and continue the cooking. Large pieces of meat must be boiled suffi ciently long to be thoroughly heated to the center or they will cool the water after the cooking vessel has been packed in the cooker. The best results are obtained when the cook ing vessel is nearly or quite full.
If things are to be served boiling hot, stand the cooking vessel over the fire while you are arranging the table.
I am using the United States Fire less Cooker in both my kitchens, and would not, for many times its cost, give it up. Even with a gas stove, I prefer the cooker for long, slow cooking.
It steams fruit cakes to perfection —no watching, no boiling dry, no re plenishing of water. Four hours in the cooker and one hour in the oven finishes them. Think of the time, worry, and fuel saved between this method and a " four hours' baking in a very slow oven." I also found it most useful in the cooking of tripe, which requires hours of slow cooking to make it tender. Even then one has to watch it carefully or it will boil dry and scorch. A night in the cooker makes it very tender and ready to dress in many attractive ways.
What I have accomplished in sav ing, time, fuel, worry, and money hy the use of the United States Fireless Cooker will, I trust, be sufficient to show every housewife an easier and better way.
(Signed) SARAH TYSON RORER.
October, 1908.