, the French cook is obliged to keep on supplying a sufficient
degree of heat to keep the casserole warm and its contents simmering.

Examples of fireless cooking with which many persons are familiar by
experience or hearsay are the foods cooked in primitive ways, whose
deliciousness is generally ascribed to the "hunger sauce" that
accompanies outdoor cookery. Among such examples are the burying of the
saucepan in a hole in the ground, the cooking of food by dropping heated
stones into the mixture, and the clambake known among the Narragansett
Indians. In all these cases we have the principle of the fireless
cooker--_i. e._, closely-covered food slowly cooked at low temperature.
Indeed, one fireless cooker is constructed directly on the principle
employed in the New England clambake, and every one knows the
deliciousness of food so cooked has become proverbial.

By the fireless cooker the cheaper cuts of meat can be cooked so that
they are delicious, appetizing, tender. There is here a distinct saving
in money, for by the employment of the fireless method of cooking, the
cheaper cuts of meat can be made to serve all the purposes of the
higher-priced pieces. Further, if the meats are stewed, boiled, or
steamed, you also acquire at no cost whatever as many pints of delicious
soup stock, less one, as you have pounds of meat.

Let us now recapitulate the advantages of fireless cooking:--

A Fireless Cooker Saves Money

1. Because by its use cheaper meats can be made to answer as well as
higher-priced cuts.

2. Because out of a given quantity of raw material you get, after the
cooking is done, more actual food than by any other method.

A Fireless Cooker Saves Fuel

You have only to burn your gas twenty minutes for a 5-pound piece of
meat for fireless cooking, whereas by the usual method you would burn
the gas two to four hours, according to the way you desired the meat
cooked.

A Fireless Cooker Saves Time

Because you have only to watch the meat until it boils. By the usual
method you must attend to it all the hours it is on cooking.

A Fireless Cooker Saves Irritation and Worry

For by this method of cooking the housewife knows that the food cannot
burn or overcook.

A Fireless Cooker Adds to the Intellectual Expansion and the Pleasures
of the Family

Because it gives the mother time from her kitchen to oversee the
development of her children, and to share with them and their father
their pleas