The Advantages Of The Fireless Cooker Recipe

One of the advantages of the fireless cooker has been mentioned--the

small amount of cooking over a fire, which means a great saving of fuel

and attention. The housekeeper may put the food into the cooker and

forget about it until meal time comes, busying herself in the meantime

with other things, or perhaps leaving home. She knows that the food is

not being ruined by burning, and that it will come to the table with its

full flavor unimpaired.

The pails used in a fireless cooker are easier to clean than pans which

have had the food burned into them, and the kitchen is never made a

degree warmer by use of the cooker, which is certainly agreeable during

the hot summer weather, and even onions may be cooked without the odor

pervading the house.

Nearly all foods may be cooked in the fireless cooker except those which

have to be crisp or brown, though roast meat may be browned either

before placing in the cooker or when the process of cooking is nearly

finished. Cereals, one of the most wholesome foods known, are greatly

improved by use of the fireless cooker. The long cooking makes them more

digestible and gives them a flavor which they lack when cooked only

fifteen or twenty minutes.

Any person having a fair idea of the general principles of cooking will

need very little instruction for the successful use of the fireless

cooker. The following recipes do not pretend to cover the wide variety

of food possible to fireless cookery, but only give an idea in the

preparation of a few simple dishes that might be used for most any meal.