One even tablespoonful of unmelted butter equals one ounce.
One tablespoonful sugar, good measure, equals one ounce.
Ordinary silver tablespoon was used for measuring, not a large mixing spoon.
COOKING SCHEDULE TO USE WITH THE OVEN THERMOMETER OF A GAS STOVE
| To Cook— | Temperature— | Cook for— |
| Bread, white | 280° | 40 minutes |
| Biscuit, small | 300° | 30 minutes |
| Biscuit, large | 300° | 30 minutes |
| Beef, roast rare | 300° | 15 minutes per pound |
| Beef, roast well done | 320° | 15 minutes per pound |
| Cake, Fruit | 260° | 2 hours |
| Cake, Sponge | 300° | 30 minutes |
| Cake, Loaf | 300° | 40 minutes |
| Cake, Layer | 300° | 15 minutes |
| Cookies | 300° | 5 minutes |
| Chickens | 340° | 2 hours |
| Custards | 260° to 300° | 20 minutes |
| Duck | 340° | 3 hours |
| Fish | 260° to 300° | 1 hour |
| Ginger Bread | 260° to 300° | 20 minutes |
| Halibut | 260° to 300° | 45 minutes |
| Lamb | 300° | 3 hours |
| Mutton, rare | 260° to 300° | 10 minutes per pound |
| Mutton, well done | 300° | 15 minutes per pound |
| Pie crust | 300° | 30 minutes |
| Pork | 260° to 300° | 2½ hours |
| Potatoes | 300° | 1 hour |
| Pudding, Bread | 260° to 300° | 1 hour |
| Pudding, Plum | 260° to 300° | 1 hour |
| Pudding, Rice | 260° to 300° | 30 minutes |
| Pudding, Tapioca | 260° to 300° | 30 minutes |
| Rolls | 260° to 300° | 20 minutes |
| Turkeys | 280° | 3 hours |
| Veal | 280° | 2½ hours |
When a teacher of "Domestic Science," the Professor's wife was accustomed to using a pyrometer, or oven thermometer, to determine the proper temperature for baking. She explained its advantages over the old-fashioned way of testing the oven to Mary and gave her a copy of the "Cooking Schedule," to put in her recipe book, which Mary found of great assistance, and said she would certainly have a range with an oven thermometer should she have a home of her own, and persuaded Aunt Sarah to have one placed in the oven door of her range.