"In the fireless cooker, you crazy boy! Are you 'most starved?"
"Well," said Bob, "that cooker was the neatest, stiffest-looking thing in the kitchen! I didn't dream that it was busily cooking a dinner. Say, I'll be glad to see a hot meal again!"
The dinner consisted of:
Round Steak with Vegetables
Dutch Cheese
Bread Plum Butter
Cottage Pudding Vanilla Sauce
BETTINA'S RECIPES
(All measurements are level)
Round Steak with Vegetables (Six portions)
2 lbs. round steak
6 potatoes
6 carrots
6 onions
2 T-flour
2 T-lard
2 t-salt
¼ t-paprika
¼ C-water
Pound the flour into the round steak with the edge of a small plate. This breaks the fibers of the meat, making it more tender. Wash and peel the potatoes, slicing in half lengthwise. Scrape the carrots, and cut into one-half inch slices lengthwise. Wash the onions and remove their outside skins. Sprinkle the vegetables with one and a half level teaspoons of salt, and the paprika. Add the water, and place in the bottom of the large fireless cooker utensil. Place the lard in a frying pan, and when hot, add the meat. Brown thoroughly on each side. Salt the meat with one-half level teaspoon of salt, and place in the kettle on top of the vegetables. Place the heated disks of the fireless cooker over and under the utensil, and cook at least one hour in the cooker.