Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1917 — CHEAP AND USEFUL [ARTICLE]

CHEAP AND USEFUL

FIRELESS COOKER EASILY MADE IN THE HOME. Method of Construction So Simple No One Can Fail to Understand It—- / Aluminum Kettle With Cover r Is Best to Use. j To make at home the simplest kind of tireless cooker line a large pail, either a' metal or wooden one, with several thicknesses of paper, or of asbestos, if not too expensive. Pack to a depth of two and a half inches with clean hay; .then set a tin pail with straight sides in the center. This should come a few inches below the top of the outer pail and should leave a space of two and a half or three inches between the inner pail and the outer all round. This space Is for packing. Then pack in all the • hay that can be crowded in, bringing it even with the top of the tin, a little higher at the outer edge. Make a round cushion, tilled witli hay, to tit situgly inside the top of the outer pail. This is laid <?n the cover of the inner pail. A wooden or metal cover goes over all. The kettle or pail in which the food is cooked must be air-tight. An aluminum kettle with a cover that clamps on is the best for meats, beans, and “boiled dinners,” although an enameled kettle will do with a tightly fitting cover. Have the cooker near the stove, so that the kettle may be set into it the second it leaves the fire. Put it into the tin pail, coyer with the cushion and put 'the board cover over that, weighing it down to make it air-tight. Recipe books are issued by the makers of the various tireless cookers- on the market, and might be obtained from the hardware department of department stores. They give the time for the preliminary iieating and for the cooking in the “fireless,” the time varying for different articles of food.