Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1916 — FIRELESS COOKER IS BOON [ARTICLE]

FIRELESS COOKER IS BOON

Contrivance Which Will Prove Big Aid to the Housewife Can Be Made With Little Trouble. Dread of long cooking processes renders the fireless cooker desirable to the housewife in the cooler seasons as well as during hot weather. The following will be found to answer the purpose. A candy pail or butter tub makes the outside. Inside this is fitted -fi galvanized pall leaving a two-inch space. t The intervening space should be filled with ground cork, shavings, sawdust, or even chaff. The cover of the candy pail should be built downward and also filled with the insulating material. A second cover is fitted Just below the rim of the galvanized pail extending to the sides of the wooden bucket. This covers up the insulating material. It may be made of wall-board or thin wood. _

Cooking vessels can be purchased at almost any hardware store at a small cost. It Is usually found best to use one stone below the cooking vessel and frequently one above. These are heated on the stove and with the heat of the hot vessel will continue the cooking process for several hours. Well shaped stones or even hard brick will answer though the usual soapstones are better. —E. W. Hamilton of Idaho University.