The Butterick Cook Book

The pattern company's cookbook, 1911 — thirty-two chapters from appetizers to the fireless cooker.

The Fireless Cooker

11 recipes in this part of The Butterick Cook Book.

Chapter XXXII-The Fireless Cooker

Sa practical saver of fuel, time and labor, the fireless cookers now on the market deserve to be better known than they are at present. The…

Boiled Tongue

This should be cooked the day before serving. If very salt, soak in cold water for several hours. Add one onion sliced and a bouquet of…

Chicken Fricassee

Cut the fowl in convenient pieces and sear each piece in a little hot fat in a frying-pan. Have a quart of boiling water in the pail of the…

Boiled Dinner

Three or four pounds of corned beef, well washed. Place in the pail of the fireless cooker and cover with cold water. Let boil slowly for…

The Fireless Cooker

minutes longer, then, without removing the cover place in the cooker for about five hours.

BOILED HAM (Cover the ham with cold water)

Cover the ham with cold water and let it boil for thirty minutes. Add a wineglass of sherry, remove to the fireless cooker and allow it to…

Boiled Fish

Place the fish in a square of cheesecloth and tie the four corners together. Have the pail of the cooker half full of boiling water and…

Baked Beans

Soak one quart of white beans over night. In the morning let them come to a boil. Drain and place in the pail of the cooker with one-half…

STEWED PRUNES (Look over the prunes carefully)

Look over the prunes carefully, wash, cover with cold water and let stand over night. The next morning turn them into the kettle of the…

CRANBERRY SAUCE (One quart of cranberries two)

One quart of cranberries, two cups of sugar and one cup of water. Place all in the kettle of the fireless cooker, put over the fire and…

Cold Desserts

and those that are frozen by packing rather than stirring, are easily made by means of the fireless cooker. as intense cold is retained as…

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