Atlanta women's club cook book

BOILED RICE. « Heat one radiator to 450 degrees, and place rice, cold and raw, on radiator in cooker for one hour or longer. SOUPS. SOUP STOCK. 4 lbs. soup meat and bone. 2V2 Qts. water. 1 onion. 1 carrot. 1 tbls. salt. Vi t-spoon pepper. 1 stalk celery. 1/2 bay leaf. 1 turnip. Bring the entire mixture to a boiling point and allow to simmer ten minutes. Place in cooker for eight hours or over night. Remove and skim fat from top before using. Use one radiator. FIRELESS COOKERY 227 TOMATO SOUP. Boil 5 minutes and place in cooker for 2 hours. Use 1 radiator. GREEN OR SNAP BEANS (Southern Style). String beans, leaving whole; place three strips of bacon or salt pork in bottom of pail, then beans on top. Remove to cooker three to four hours, using one hot radiator, 450 to 500 degrees. BAKED MACARONI WITH CHEESE. 1 hour in fireless, between 2 radiators — heated 450 degrees. MEATS— ROAST BEEF. The best shaped roast to prepare for cooking by fireless is a rolled roast from five to eight pounds. Prepare in the usual way for oven. Then put roast in the largest vessel and raise temperature of the two radiators to highest possible point; then place the vessel in the large compartment and allow it to remain twenty minutes for each pound, or fifteen minutes per pound if desired rare. Never use water when roasting beef. The fireless process is the most satisfactory method of all for cooking meat; enough juice from the meat is developed during the cooking to make the best gravy ever served. During the cooker method this juice acts as a self baster. ROAST LAMB. Select a small leg of lamb and cut off the shank, and season well in the usual way. Place in the largest vessel and use both Prepare gravy in usual style. Use two radiators heated 500 degrees. Allow thirty minutes or more for each pound of meat. VEAL LOAF. Three hours. Use two radiators. Heat 475 degrees. ROAST CHICKEN. The time necessary for roasting a chicken depends on the age of the bird. II/2 hours is sufficiently long for a young chicken but an older one should be roasted two hours, and a very tough chicken three hours. Old chickens will turn out as tender and savory as spring chickens. Prepare chicken by usual method for oven. It will not be necessary to heat the chicken to brown before it has been placed in the fireless. If both radiators are made hot the chicken when roasted will turn out very nice and brown. The chicken therefore can be placed cold in the vessel and placed at once in the cooker for roasting. It is not necessary to open the cooker for basting as the hot steam prevents burning. Heat 500 degrees. ESCALLOPED POTATOES. Peel and slice one quart raw potatoes, place in kettle one layer of potatoes and small pieces of butter, salt and pepper, and slice one small onion until required quantity is prepared. Pour one pint of scalding milk over this, sprinkle with bread crumbs and place in the fireless. Use two radiators heated 450 degrees and bake 21/2 hours. APPLE PIE. Place in the fireless, using two radiators heated 450 degrees for about 40 minutes. Any fruit pies can be baked like this. PUMPKIN PIE. Line pan with pie pastry — using 1 crust only. 2 eggs well beaten. 2 cups milk. % cup sugar. IVo cups pumpkin.