FoodNet

A manual of home-making

1919

Page 112

Presented as published in 1919. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
The so-called automatic cfwkstove, or insulated oven, has i\w advantage over the ordinary tireless cooker of being still more eco- nomical in legard to fieat and labor am! of eliminating an addi- tional piece of equipment in tlie kitchen » I>ccanse, as orilinarily made, it has top burners also, and hence takes the place of the usual range. In the cynunercial insulated oven, both the pre- liminary heating of tlu* food and the complete cooking process are accomplished; conscKiuenily, botli the loss of heat oeciLsioncd by transferring the food container from the stove to the cooker ant! the labor of this motion are eliminate^J. Moreover, the walls of the oven itself are heated and do not draw the heat from the food. There are now on the market insulated ovens adapted to the use of giis, electricity, arul kerosene. Tl»e heat supply in some of these ovens is {controlled V>y a dial liantl that may be adjusted for the nyml>er of minute?* for which the heat is it?- quired^ at the end of which time the heat is cut off without Wk 212 A MANUAL OF HOME-MAKING TABLE XIII, — Gkxkral Cookixo PnncsiinKii * (I) l>ry hrat Bmitiog (2) RoiuCltiiE (3) Bi (4) ToaaliiUE (5) Bn>woing (H) Atnint hmt BchUh^ (7) SitntDeiicuE (8) Btefriog (0) {Stc&mitig (10) Po(u?hiQg (11) Braittiog (12J in Frying (13) 8»ut^itiK (U) FricM- ttfftnition Cooking bH«» or amaU pifM^ea of mt-al or fowl by hoi liir frorn n.Kl-hoi coola or flame. Tun hmilinit: cookiog ou Coiikiug: lurgo pie<>fji or wliolf? ciireartH of nn'-jit *tr fuwl tiy hiji nir from op«;n fire or in hot ovpn. No wal<?r aiiilwL Cooking iiMsatt vegwUblw, or hatti-ra »ad dJOUghi by hut uir of ovciu Baking of battera on hot ptka or fftom*. nrowninjc «iirf»f« of Hour ttiixturea over fire. tffntLiiK f^i flour to hrowu iii iho first or IttHt ppriod of cook- ing of drvtlgcd meat or rrumbed di»h. Cooking by imni«<minK In iprnt**r which i* bubbhng well Co«jking in hot wtiter ihut aUlEhtIv bubblcit but doca nut Ih>jI. tiong, alow lueriofc of to rooking or «m- SAt. fi*h, poultry. Cotjking in fit«ain above Ixiil- tog WAter. Cooking of eggs or c|k mix- tures tn hot wait!f-;-boiniag na tlicy an? droppod into it thud wimmrring to r«M>k^ C«Hikiftg of tni'at by u rom- bin&tiun of baking and slew- ing. Rako in hot oved 15 niiuutriv. Olid wat^T and coo- tinu*' cooking. Cooking by Inutieraing id hot fat. Cooking in frying pan in small amount of fat, aearing rtful turning oftgn. Cofikiitg of flc*h fowJ by •aut^ifiK and then *te»*'inir. Frifri^«*MinK in f»vi;n. Ilrtiwn iti fat in fryinu pnti, plucf in (^ovcn«il carthenwarv or glaan 'ItMh and ^uok acvrmi bouts in iivrn. Coat ttr wood Over bed of hot eoals. In heated frying pan on stove. In v^ery hot oven. fJvon of ruiigi\ Griddle on top of stove* Ovor b<Hi of luii roaU or ovi-r heat from mr^tal top- In hoi ovin. In kettle on top of fltove. In k«»tt|(» or prtn i»n Ktttvf ur id iluublT! iMjiilrr. In partly ckxted kettle on buck of atove. In »lcann'r over kettle on stove. In aaurepan or iron frying pan on ningw. OvcD. tn fmng kettle on atove. tn frying p^t} on atove. In frying t^^n on utove* Top of atovo And in ftlow oven. Git» »tnikt< Under broiler o ga* oven. In heated fryin pan. Under broiler or in very bol oven. Hub oven or grid- dlf on top of burn* cr.