Caloric Book of Recipes (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Caloric Book of Recipes The recipes, explanations and directions, together with a number of useful hints and suggestions pertaining to the culinary art, contained in this volume have been prepared for the benefit of users of the Caloric Fireless Cookstove. It should, perhaps, be explained here that the word "fireless" is a misnomer. The proper word is "recalorator, " which literally means conserver of heat, just as "refrigerator" means conserver of cold. In both instances, the initial calor (heat) and frigor (cold) must be provided. In the "hay-box, " the predecessor of the Caloric Cookstove, the initial heat was supplied by a large body of water or liquid in which the food to be cooked was placed and brought to the boiling point. The insulation of hay kept the heat from dissipating into the surrounding atmosphere, just as the charcoal and air chamber insulation of the refrigerator keep the surrounding warmer air from rapidly melting the ice. 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 two hundred and twelve degrees Fahrenheit. Inasmuch as there are certain foods which cannot be cooked properly by boiling or stewing in a liquid, the primitive "hay-box" and its commercial successor, the original Caloric Fireless Cookstove, were not real cookstoves - they could neither bake or roast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.