Excerpt from Book of Caloric Recipes Fireless Cook Stove: A Compilation of More Than Three Hundred Superior Recipes of All Kinds, Meats, Game, Poultry, Fish, Cereals, Vegetables, Soups, Puddings, Fruits, Sauces, Desserts, Breads, Etc; Especially Adapted to the New Caloric Fireless Cookstove
The recipes, explanations and directions, together with other useful hints and suggestions pertaining to the culinary art, contained in this volume were written and prepared primarily for the benefit of users of the Caloric Fireless Cooker. It should, perhaps, be explained here that the word "fireless" is a misnomer. The proper word is "recalorator," which literally means the conserving of heat, just as "refrigerator" means the conserving of cold. In both instances, the initial calor (heat) and frigidity (cold) must be provided.
In the "hay-box," the predecessor of the Caloric cooker, the initial heat was supplied by the large body of water or liquid in which the food to be cooked was placed and brought to the boiling point, the insulation of the hay keeping the surrounding atmosphere from equalizing and thus dissipating this heat, just as the charcoal and air chamber insulation of the refrigerator keeps the surrounding warmer temperature from rapidly melting the ice, and thus lowering the temperature of the food chambers. For boiling, steaming (to a certain extent) and stewing, the boiling liquid or water was adequate to complete the cooking. But, of course, the temperature could not be raised above 212 degrees Fahrenheit.
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