FoodNet

A manual of home-making

1919

Page 106

Presented as published in 1919. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
<a) Rclft lively low prip«, (A) availability (in Aome regiotu»)t (c) resprmd^ cfwckly to opeDlQii of dratta. {a) tn ^n«?rat, the aamo aa for wood. (a> CI<«anlin<w9, (it>) resiipond*! qiiipklvto opening of drafts, {i) fairly high heat vuluo. (a) HiKh heat value, (ft) imrm-' dirtt** ifirrwi-'W' nf ht^iW, (r) rlenii- jinrtiwii, {d) smull BtoraKC apace necessary. (a) EaMe of control, (b) clcanli- rieiWj (c) eonveni»>n(*e. id) im- mediate inoreaw of h«at« (n) Even,' advanta^f! BtandtanUigeiK id) LoM- fuel value, {h} \Atjst stor* Jiijt) japaee □eceasary. (r) labor in preparation, (r/) dcarrity, (e) do«t not bold fipc bnjs, [/) unsteady heat. ^m in) Iliisb prjfc, (ft) difficulty of ob- fl taining, (c^ Blower response to ^| » bitnge of drafts. ^ (<j) Dirty, (M inuike produnsd, (ej more atteotion to fire and furttace nvoosaaiy than with anthradie. (rt) Slakes and deteriorat«s on ex- posure to air, ih} iukea fire spoil* lancously in piles, (r) heat value generally trjw. (d) heat in fuel dif* ficult to realise, («) firoa do cot keep well, \f\ gaaea genera t«d over lire pot itomctime» bum in smiiik<; pipe. rauMUg cxcoMive he^tms. (a) Low beat value, (6) bulkiiieia. («) Bulkineaa. (6) Uabllitv of fire gniogout if not prupt-rly handled, k) hre rcMmire* nit her frequent; | attention unleaa fire pot is deep. (o) High price, {h) difficulty of safe Atonige. {(i) High priee in many place-a. {tt) High price. • L. P. BreckcnridRe and S. B. Fliigg. U. 8. Bur, Mines, Tech. Paper 97, 1, FiJl lamps daily if they are in use. Do not fill them too full. 2. Keep the wicks low when lamps are nf>t lii^htod, 3. Do tit^t turn the wicks low when the lamps are lighted, befaii.s*:' t(X> little air h allowed for burninja:, and ill-smelling ^uses are given off. 4. Blow ont a lamp by a erosa-wise motion at the top. I>> not blow into the chimney. A paper may l>e held at the t'op i>n ».ine side and a enrrent of air direetixl aguin-st it. 5. Oecasionally boil the burners in tt solution of washing-soda or in strong soapsuds. Aceiylene, air gm^ and Blau gas. Lighting by acetylene, air gas, or Blau gas is fairly common in village ant:J country homers* It is, however, in general more expensive than the gas or electric light available in larger towns. Acetylene gives a t>rilliant wliitt* light. Itn greatest ilisadvan- t^e is the danger of explosion from careless handling* The products of combustion are not given off in great amounts. 1 202 .4 MANUAL OF HOME-MAKING Gas. Manilas should always he used on gas burners, since they give much more and a steadier Jight for a given amount of gas than does an open flame (Fipc* 46). The saving in gas will more than pay for the lamp and iimntle8. The tubes of drop lights and stoves should he handled carefully in order to prevent their cracking and allowing gas to escape. Ekdricity* Of electric lamps three kinds are common in household Inverted manflt Open fjame Uprigf?! mantle -^* 20 CANDLEPOWfeR Fio. 46.* — Compariflon of amount of liRht given by different gas lamps. Each lamp is suppD5(Hl to bum 5 cubic io^t an hour, coatins H '^^^^ *^ Bi^ ^ fLOO a 1000 cubic feet. Note that the mantle lamp gives four or five timea aa mueb light as the open flame. The inverted mantle gives more bght downward! and Icn upward than the upright tnaaUe.