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Fireless Cookery (No radiators and where you)

are no radiators, and where you are cooking things which require a great length of time, it is a good plan to remove the container from the cooker when the time is half gone and reheat it over the fire. In doing so, as in preparing the dish for the cooker in the first place, the container must not be uncovered before returning it to the cooker, or steam will escape and the food cool. In considering labor-saving and fuel-saving devices, the steam pressure cooker should be mentioned. While it requires fire for operation, the intense heat caused by steam under pressure so reduces the length of time required for cooking that there is great saving of fuel, and cheaper cuts of meat, dried beans and peas, and other foods which usually need long, slow cooking are much more quickly and thoroughly done.

Among the many inventions since the days of open-fireplace cookery the automatic electric oven cooker, which of itself turns the power off upon attaining a certain registered temperature, is a most desirable acquisition where electricity is not too costly for its operation. Aladdin and his lamp were not more wonderful!