Cooking as it was taught in 1915 — lesson by lesson, with the questions and the home-work forms the students filled in.

Diagrams of Range

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Diagrams of Range

I, with oven damper open. ash pan. F, firebox. O, oven. check draft. FD, front draft. damper. RD, reservoir damper. Arrows show direction…

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