[3] “Bacteria in Milk,” by L. A. Rogers. Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture, 1907, p. 194.
Bring the ingredients to a boil in a cooker-pan, set it over boiling water and put it into a cooker for one hour or more.
Remove all fat from the meat, chop it fine and heat it with the water until it boils, stirring it constantly. Drain off the liquid and grind the meat to a paste with a mortar and pestle. Put it, with the liquid and Fairchild’s powder, or its equivalent, into a sterilized glass can, close it and shake all together vigorously till it is well mixed. Stand the jar with the cover laid on it, but not fastened securely, on a low rack in a cooker-pail of warm water. Place it over moderate heat until the water is 115 degrees Fahrenheit. Cover it and put it into a cooker for three hours. Warm the cooker-nest, previously, with a pail of boiling water set into it for half an hour. Take out the broth, put it into a saucepan and quickly bring it to a boil. If it is for a very sick patient it should be strained. Keep it cold unless it is used immediately. Add one-fourth teaspoonful of salt before serving it.
Put the powder with the water, which has been boiled and cooled, into a sterilized pint glass can, and shake them until the powder is dissolved. Add the milk and shake it slightly again. Put the can into a cooker-pail of warm water and heat it over a moderate fire until the water is 115 degrees Fahrenheit. Set it into a previously warmed cooker for from ten to thirty minutes. If it remains too long it will develop an unpleasant flavour. When done, remove it to a saucepan and bring it quickly to a boil. Keep it in a cold place if it is not used immediately.
Wash the apple thoroughly; cut it into pieces, removing the core but not the skin. Bring it to a boil in the water; cook it over boiling water in a cooker for two hours or more. Strain it through a wire strainer and add the sugar. Serve it cold.
Pick over the barley and soak it over night or for several hours. Bring it to a boil and put it into a cooker for eight hours. Strain it, add salt, sugar and lemon juice to taste. Serve it hot.
Fireless cookers are specially adapted to use on a large scale, as it is in cases where cooking is done on a business basis that economy in fuel, range space, and labour form such an important factor, and because there some intelligent person will generally oversee the work of the ignorant and careless. In their present form they are not, perhaps, adapted to very large institutions, where many hundreds of persons are fed, since there is a limit to the size of utensils which can be lifted in and out of the insulating box. But for small institutions, hotels, boarding-houses, restaurants, and lunch rooms the fireless cooker will, inevitably, become indispensable as soon as it is understood.
The United States Army has used the fireless cooker and, owing partly to its demand, some of the manufacturers of commercial cookers make them in sizes appropriate for use on a large scale. For those who wish to try them without an initial outlay of much money the home-made cooker will be found in every way satisfactory. As an encouragement to those who wish to use them for such purposes, it may be said that there is less chance of failure in cooking large quantities of food than with small.
In the main, the directions for making and using cookers are the same no matter what the size, but a few points may be suggested as more necessary for large than small cookers.
In many kitchens there will be no space near the range for a cooker or a number of cookers, and it will be a matter of necessity to have one which can easily be moved. Instead of ordinary castors, use, for these, such small iron wheels as are put on hand trucks. They will be found to run more easily and to injure a floor much less. Select a box which will fit under a table, when loaded, and then it will not seem to make the kitchen any fuller than before. Fit it with two strong handles, preferably on the front of the box, so that it may be guided when pulled out from under the table.
The portable insulating pail may be found useful for transporting hot food from a central kitchen to outlying dining-rooms, as is so often done in large institutions, aluminum utensils and the lightest packing material that is practicable being advisable for these.
The temperature maintained by a large mass of food in a well-made box, will result in more rapid cooking than with small quantities, and this must be taken into account with foods, such as potatoes, which are easily overcooked.
There is always a difficulty in stating the number of persons that may be served by any recipe, since the amount served to each varies to such an extent with circumstances. The number indicated in this book is a mean between the small table d’hôte and the large à la carte portions, and is based upon the amount served at an ordinary family table. Three-quarters of a cupful is allowed for each portion of soup.
Boil the water, add the salt and sprinkle in the oats gradually. When boiling put it into a cooker for two hours or more. It is improved by twelve hours’ cooking.
Serves forty or fifty persons.
Mix the meal with one quart of the water, bring the remainder to a boil, add the salt and stir in the meal paste. Let it boil four minutes and put it into the cooker for five hours or more.
Serves thirty-five or forty persons.
Add the hominy to the boiling, salted water; let it boil for ten minutes and put it into the cooker for eight hours or more.
Serves forty or fifty persons.
Soak the samp in the cold water for eight hours or more. Add it to the boiling water and salt, let it boil uncovered for one hour and put it into a cooker for six hours or more. A little butter added before serving improves it, if it is used as a vegetable.
Serves forty or fifty persons.
Soak the cracked wheat in the cold water for nine hours or more. Add it to the boiling water and salt, let it boil for ten minutes and put it into a cooker for at least nine hours; reheat it to the boiling point and cook it again for nine hours or more.
Serves forty or fifty persons.
Cook it in the same manner as cracked wheat.
Serves forty or fifty persons.
Cook it as directed on page 56.
Serves forty or fifty persons.
Cook it as directed on page 56.
Serves forty or fifty persons.
Cook it in the same way as cream of wheat.
Cook it in the same way as cream of wheat.
Wash the rice, add it to the boiling salted water; let it boil and put it into a cooker for one hour.
Serves forty or fifty persons.
Make it as directed on page 60.
Serves forty-five or fifty persons.
Make it as directed on page 62.
Serves forty-five or fifty persons.
Make it as directed on page 63.
Serves forty-five or fifty persons.
Make it as directed on page 66.
Serves forty-five or fifty persons.
Make it as directed on page 69.
Serves forty or forty-five persons.
Make it as directed on page 68.
Serves forty-five or fifty persons.
Make it as directed on page 68.
Serves forty-five or fifty persons.
Make it as directed on page 70.
Serves forty-five or fifty persons.
Make it as directed on page 67.
Serves forty-five or fifty persons.
Make it as directed on page 70.
Serves forty or forty-five persons.
Make it as directed on page 70.
Serves forty-five or fifty persons.
Make it as directed on page 69.
Serves forty-five to fifty persons.
Make it as directed on page 71.
Serves forty-five or fifty persons.
Make it as directed on page 72.
Serves fifty or fifty-five persons.
Make it as directed on page 72.
Serves fifty or fifty-five persons.
Make it as directed on page 73.
Serves forty-five or fifty persons.
Make it at directed on page 75.
Serves forty-five or fifty persons.
Make it as directed on page 73.
Serves forty-five or fifty persons.
Make it as directed on page 74.
Serves forty-five or fifty persons.
Make it as directed on page 74.
Serves forty-five or fifty persons.
Make it as directed on page 77.
Serves fifty persons.
Make it as directed on page 75.
Serves forty-five or fifty persons.
Make this as directed for fish chowder, substituting two quarts of stewed fresh or canned tomatoes for the milk, which may be added to the chowder before putting it into the cooker.
Serves forty-five or fifty persons.
Cook it as directed for Creamed Salt Codfish, No. 2 on page 84.
Serves forty or fifty persons.
Cook it as directed on page 85.
Serves forty or fifty persons.
Have the butcher bone and roll the meat, if it is from the rump. Wipe it with a damp cloth, dredge it with flour and brown it on all sides in the drippings. Wash, pare, and cut the vegetables into pieces. Put all the ingredients with the hot, browned meat, into a cooker-pail, add the water, boiling hot, let it boil for thirty minutes and put it into a cooker for nine hours or more. Before serving bring the meat to a boil, remove it, put it in a warm place, and make three quarts of brown sauce. Strain the liquor in the pail and use it for the sauce. If there is fat on the top of the liquor remove it and use it in making the sauce.
Serves fifty persons.
Make it as directed on page 184.
Serves sixteen or twenty persons.
Cook it as directed on page 95, except that there need not be an outer pail of boiling water.
Serves fifty persons.
Cook it as directed on page 100.
Serves forty or fifty persons.
Buy twenty-five or thirty pounds of brisket to get ten pounds of clear, lean meat. Cook it as directed on page 97.
Serves forty or fifty persons.
Cook it as directed on page 96.
Serves forty or fifty persons.
Cook it as directed on page 101.
Serves forty or fifty persons.
Cook it as directed on page 111.
Serves forty or fifty persons.
One peck of potatoes will make about ten quarts when prepared for creamy potatoes. Melt the butter in the cooker-pail, add the milk, and, while it is heating, slice the potatoes which have been pared and soaked, for two hours or more, in cold water. As each quart of potatoes is sliced put it into the hot milk. The potatoes will thus be heated to boiling point, quart by quart. Add the seasoning. When boiling, after the last quart of potatoes has been added, put all into the cooker for one hour or more.
Serves forty or fifty persons.
Cook it as directed on page 117.
Serves forty or fifty persons.
Cook it as directed on page 143.
Serves forty or fifty persons.
Cook it as directed on page 149, without the lower pail of water.
Serves forty-five or fifty persons.
Soak the beans, drain them, cook them for seven hours or more, as directed on page 141, with the nine quarts of water, soda, and salt. Drain them, add the other ingredients, and bake them till browned.
Serves forty-five or fifty persons.
Mix and cook it as directed on page 155. Put it into seven or eight moulds.
Serves fifty persons.
Mix and cook it as directed on page 157. Put the pudding into six moulds. Serve it with a liquid sauce.
Serves forty or fifty persons.
Cook it as directed on page 162, except that the outer pail of water may be omitted. If served cold and not browned, omit the butter.
Serves thirty or thirty-five persons.
Mix the dry ingredients with one pint of the water, add them to the boiling water and molasses, add the milk. Let all come to a boil and put it into a cooker for ten hours or more. Put it into baking dishes and brown it, or serve it without browning, either plain or with cream.
Serves forty or fifty persons.
Cook it as directed on page 164, in three pudding pans, set over cooker-pails of water.
Serves forty or fifty persons.
Cook them as directed on page 168.
Serves thirty-five to forty-five persons.
Cook it as directed on page 168.
Serves forty-five to fifty persons.
Many women in these days will find it difficult to believe that it is possible to bake without the constant presence of fire, but our great-grandmothers were well aware that foods continued to cook in the brick ovens long after the fire in them had burned out or was raked out. The insulated oven represents an adaptation of old-fashioned ideas to new and modern conditions. Although we cannot go back to the days of brick ovens, superior as they were, in certain respects, to the portable range with its quickly fluctuating heat and great waste from radiation, yet the insulated oven will not be found impossible or very difficult to set up, and the adventurous woman will, perhaps, not be content until she has tried this development of the fireless cooker.