Choice Recipes and How to Operate a Fireless Cookstove

The manual for a vanished appliance: a heat-retaining box that cooked dinner without fire, sold by the Toledo Cooker Company, 1920.

Recipes

24 recipes in this part of Choice Recipes and How to Operate a Fireless Cookstove.

Cooking Is Perfectly Simple

AS YOU stand in the presence of your new Toledo Fireless Cookstove, wondering just how to begin using it, bear in mind that if there were…

How Cooking Is Done

IN the "Toledo" Fireless Cookstove foods may be roasted, baked, steamed, stewed or broiled or fried. In it can be cooked fish, oysters…

The Use of Radiators

New Radiators-Caution There is moisture lodged within the tiny air chambers of new soapstone radiators. Instead of subjecting the new…

The Radiator Thermometer

Apples .400 Beef, Well Done 575 Rare 525 Biscuits 425 Bread 400 600- Cake .400 Cereal 475 550 Chicken (Roast) 550 500 Custards 375 Duck 550…

Testing Radiators Without Thermometer

If you are without a thermometer, there are several ways to test the temperature of the radiators. The best one is the flour test. Drop a…

Don'ts

Don't start cooking with underheated radiators. Don't use one radiator when two are required.

Soup

General Instructions HE real food value of soup is improved by fireless cooking. Meats and bones for soup cost but little and by using the…

Cereals

General Instructions ATMEAL and cereals of all kinds are best cooked by the fireless method. A much enjoyed feature of the Fireless…

Fish

General Instructions ISH cooked in a fireless cooker is delicious. Fish is a food that may be blaze, but the fireless is specially…

Meats

General Instructions LL meats are better if fireless cooked. Cheaper cuts of roast beef may be transformed by fireless cooking to resemble…

Fowl and Game

Roast Chicken The time necessary for roasting a chicken depends on the age of the bird. 1/2 hours is sufficiently long for a young chicken…

Macaroni

Plain Boiled Macaroni Three-quarters cup macaroni broken in inch pieces, 2 quarts boiling water, 1 teaspoon salt. Cook macaroni in boiling…

Vegetables (EGETABLES are always better)

EGETABLES are always better tasting, and contain greater nutritive V value, when fireless cooked. All vegetables are not fireless cooked…

Vegetables

Mushroom Sauce Melt 2 tablespoons butter and add 2 tablespoons of flour. When bubbling, add slowly 1/4 cup of mushroom liquor and 3/4 cup…

Bread and Biscuits

N baking bread or biscuits, the Fireless Cookstove is a pronounced success, as it browns the crusts and bakes thoroughly without burning…

Cakes

E give below a few recipes for cakes. Your own favorite recipe may be used. Different cakes require different heats. For instance, a batter…

Pies

Pastry for Pies NE and one-half cups sifted flour, 1 teaspoon salt, ½ cup lard (or lard and butter), 7 tablespoons ice water. Sift flour…

Puddings

Two cups bread crumbs, 1 quart hot milk, 2 eggs, ½ cup sugar, piece of butter size of an egg, 1/2 cup raisins and 1/2 teaspoon salt and…

Pudding Sauces

Cream 1/4 cup of butter in a warm bowl and add gradually 1/2 cup of powdered sugar, and flavoring to suit taste, either brandy, vanilla or…

Fruits

Dried Fruits There are two methods of cooking dried fruits in the fireless. In either method soak the fruit 10 hours. This restores the…

Freezing in the Fireless

OLEDO FIRELESS COOKSTOVES retain cold just as they retain heat. The ice should be broken fine. Use 1 cup rock salt to 3 cups of ice. Place…

Frozen Dainties

Frozen Tapioca Pudding Put 1/2 cup minute tapioca into 3 cups boiling water. Cook 10 minutes, or until clear. Cut fine, 1 can pineapple (or…

Canning in the Fireless Cookstove

THE jars, covers and rubbers must be perfectly sterile. Sterilize these by placing in large utensil, covering with cold water, heating same…

Conservo

HIS appliance will cook a complete meal at one meats, vegetables, desserts. Delicious tasty meals may be prepared without work, worry, or…

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