ONE-ROOM COOKERY Wie ld le hd ed OY YY —— JTrRRArR: find BBD OYA BB f / 4 i SRSRRREE emma ee — -| | | LS 22501460870 Peat of You Ou a you are one of the many thousands of women—or men, for that matter—who live in one-room flatlets. Probably the room was not originally designed as a bed-sitting room, but with a great deal of ingenuity and careful planning it has been made into a pleasant and comfortable home. You have a divan bed that looks exactly like a settee during the day, neat unit furniture for your clothes and “ bits and pieces’’, and a clean and labour-saving gas fire. How about your cooking arrangements? Perhaps you don’t do much cooking at home because your equipment isn’t adequate to prepare a really satisfactory meal, and after a hard day’s work cooking can become a tiresome business. Most of us have our mid-day meal in a restaurant or canteen, but like a meal at home in the evening, and friends in occasionally to share it. How then can this be achieved with a minimum of effort ? There is a tremendous variety of things which you can cook for your- self on a gas ring or a gas grill. The recipes are too often tucked away in large cookery books which you don’t feel justified in buying and anyway, they are too complicated for your limited equipment. In this booklet you will find an assortment of recipes specially chosen to suit your equipment and the time you will be able to spend on cooking. The kitchen utensils you will need to use for each recipe are noted beside it, and there are also directions on how to plan a small kitchenette in one corner of your room, with a list of the minimum equipment. Mr. Therm has designed a wide range of gas appliances to cater for your special requirements, from the neat gas ring to the “‘ baby”? cooker complete with oven. All of them are smart and compact in appearance, easy to install and keep clean, efficient in operation and economical in gas consumption. With one of these appliances, and’ this booklet as a guide, we hope you will be able to plan and cook varied and appetising meals for yourself and your friends. Methods of Cookery Utensils required : Saucepan with a lid. To boil, place the food into boiling water, and allow to boil gently for the required time. Have enough water to cover the food unless otherwise stated, and put the lid on the pan to keep in the steam and smell. ¥* BOILING ¥* FRYING Utensils required : frying pan and perforated spoon, or fish Slice. There are two types of frying, deep and shallow. Deep frying is not a practical proposition for the one-room flat, so it will be omitted. To fry, place the fat (dripping or one of the vegetable fats) into the frying pan, heat until a blue smoke rises, then gently put the food into the pan. Cook on one side until brown, then turn over and cook on the other side until the same colour. Reduce the heat and cook for some minutes on each side until cooked through. RILLIN *G - Utensils required: grill tin. Grilling is cooking by the heat from the red-hot grill frets. Light the gas and allow 2 to 3 minutes for the frets to heat up before placing the food beneath. If your grill pan has a reversible grid mesh, you can adjust the latter according to the food to be cooked—in the high position for toast, and lower for bacon, tomatoes, meat and fish which need longer cooking time. For food which needs browning only, remove the mesh grid altogether, so that the bottom of the dish rests flat on the pan. * STEAMING Utensils required : saucepan, steamer with lid or two enamel plates.

AI-modernized reading of the original text

ONE-ROOM COOKERY a you are one of the many thousands of women—or men, for that matter—who live in one-room flatlets. Probably the room was not originally designed as a bed-sitting room, but with a great deal of ingenuity and careful planning it has been made into a pleasant and comfortable home. You have a divan bed that looks exactly like a settee during the day, neat unit furniture for your clothes and “ bits and pieces’’, and a clean and labour-saving gas fire. How about your cooking arrangements? Perhaps you don’t do much cooking at home because your equipment isn’t adequate to prepare a really satisfactory meal, and after a hard day’s work cooking can become a tiresome business. Most of us have our mid-day meal in a restaurant or canteen, but like a meal at home in the evening, and friends in occasionally to share it. How then can this be achieved with a minimum of effort ? There is a tremendous variety of things which you can cook for yourself on a gas ring or a gas grill. The recipes are too often tucked away in large cookery books which you don’t feel justified in buying and anyway, they are too complicated for your limited equipment. In this booklet you will find an assortment of recipes specially chosen to suit your equipment and the time you will be able to spend on cooking. The kitchen utensils you will need to use for each recipe are noted beside it, and there are also directions on how to plan a small kitchenette in one corner of your room, with a list of the minimum equipment. Mr. Therm has designed a wide range of gas appliances to cater for your special requirements, from the neat gas ring to the “‘ baby”? cooker complete with oven. All of them are smart and compact in appearance, easy to install and keep clean, efficient in operation and economical in gas consumption. With one of these appliances, and’ this booklet as a guide, we hope you will be able to plan and cook varied and appetising meals for yourself and your friends. Methods of Cookery Utensils required : Saucepan with a lid. To boil, place the food into boiling water, and allow to boil gently for the required time. Have enough water to cover the food unless otherwise stated, and put the lid on the pan to keep in the steam and smell. ¥* BOILING ¥* FRYING Utensils required : frying pan and perforated spoon, or fish Slice. There are two types of frying, deep and shallow. Deep frying is not a practical proposition for the one-room flat, so it will be omitted. To fry, place the fat (dripping or one of the vegetable fats) into the frying pan, heat until a blue smoke rises, then gently put the food into the pan. Cook on one side until brown, then turn over and cook on the other side until the same colour. Reduce the heat and cook for some minutes on each side until cooked through. * GRILLING - Utensils required: grill tin. Grilling is cooking by the heat from the red-hot grill frets. Light the gas and allow 2 to 3 minutes for the frets to heat up before placing the food beneath. If your grill pan has a reversible grid mesh, you can adjust the latter according to the food to be cooked—in the high position for toast, and lower for bacon, tomatoes, meat and fish which need longer cooking time. For food which needs browning only, remove the mesh grid altogether, so that the bottom of the dish rests flat on the pan. * STEAMING Utensils required : saucepan, steamer with lid or two enamel plates.

One-room cookery