Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1914 — FOR FIRELESS COOKER [ARTICLE]

FOR FIRELESS COOKER

EXPERT ADVISES SOME NEW AND DELICIOUS DISHES. How Requisites for Any Meal May Be Prepared Through the Agency of the Latest Kitchen LaborSaving Device. Some new things which may be prepared in the fireless cooker were presented by Miss Fannie Merritt Farmer. Following are the recipes: Cracked Wheat. —Soak one cupful of cracked wheat in five cupfuls df cold water two hours. Put over flame and bring to tlje boiling point; add salt and let boil set three minutes, stirring constantly. Set pan Into a larger one containing boiling water and cook in a flreless cooker over night. Serve with sugar and cream. Smothered Haddock. —Cut fish into fillets and season with salt, pepper, and lemon juice. Arrange fish in kettle, cover with prepared tomato soup; over this put a second layer. Place kettle in a larger one containing boiling water and let water continue to boil for three minutes. Cook withor without radiator about 45 mln* utes. , Roly Poly.—Remove fat, skin and bones from a loin of lamb. Remove meat from eight veal chops, arrange the eight pieces of veal, separated by a thin piece of fat salt pork, close to the lean meat of the loin. Season, with salt and pepper and sprinkle with a rounding tablespoonful each of finely chopped carrot, celery and parsley. Roll as tight as possible, put over a few strips of very thin fat salt pork and fasten with a string to keep meat in shape. Dredge, roll with flour and brown in a pan placed over gas flame. Cook between two radiators two and one-half hours. Scalloped Egg and Potato With Cheese.—Arrange alternate layers of cold sliced boiled potatoes and sliced hard boiled eggs, and on each layer of egg arrange one-half of thin sliced onion which has been parboiled for one-minute. Pour over a thin sauce flavored with cheese, salt find pepper to taste. Cook over one radiator one and one half to two hours.

String Beans With Cheese.—Remove strings by cutting entire length of each side, then cut beans into two-inch lengths. Plunge into cold water and allow them to remain until all the beans drop out, which " may afterwards be discarded. Cook pods in boiling water, allowing onequarter teaspoon of soda to two quarts of beans, for five minutes; then cook over one radiator two hours. Drain thoroughly, put in serving-dish, season with salt and cayenne, add onehalf cup of graded rarebit cheese and one quarter cup of heavy cream. Stir until well mixed, sprinkle generously over top grated Parmesan cheese and dot over with one tablespoon of soft butter. Reheat in hot oven dr under gas flame. NUt Butter. —Mix and sift two cups of bread flour, one cup of grahamflour, one cup of brown sugar, two teaspoons of baking powder and one teaspoon each of soda and salt; then add two cuds of sour milk and one cup of chopped or coarsely cut English walnut meat. Turn into bread pan and bake in fireless gas range with the gas on for 16 minutes and abont an hour after gas is turned off. Black Eyed Susan.—To one cup of brown bread crumbs add two and onehalf cups of scalded milk and let stand until mixture cools; then add two eggs slightly beaten, one tablespoon of butter, one-half teaspoon of cinnamon and one-quarter teaspoon each of clove, nutmeg and salt. Bake between two radiators. Serve hot with sugar and cream. —Boston Transcript.