COOKING WITHOUT GAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1941, Page 8

COOKING WITHOUT GAS

LONDON HOUSEWIVES OVERCOME DIFFICULTIES. MUCH INGENUITY SHOWN. London housewives are showing in- ' < genuity in coping with the gas short- i I age which has been one of the minor; ; inconveniences of the bombing attacks. ! I our London correspondent writes. Oil! I-stoves, oven tires, even braziers on the i pavement have been used to cook the| i family’s dinner. i I heard of one woman who had the: I brilliant idea of using her electric iron , |to cook her breakfast. She turned the | current on. secured the iron upside j down on the table, and placed a frying I I pan on lop of it. In a short time she j , had a dish of well-cooked bacon and i | oggs. The Ministry of Food has its hint. ; i too for cooking with a small supply i iof gas. Their suggestion is jam jar i I cookery, which offers a simple way I I of cooking a meal even when there is j only a glimmer of gas in the stove. ’ i The only equipment needed is two or ( ! three stone jam jars and a saucepan j . large enough and deep enough to hold : them. i The pan should be half filled with j ■ water and brought to the boil. A stew , I goes into one jar. vegetables in an-; ' oilier, roly-poly pudding in a .bird. . ’ The jars are put into the boiling water. | the whole covered with, a tightly-fit- ! ! ting lid. and left to simmer until ■ icooked. | Potatoes can be put straight into the j l boiling water in the spaces loft by the | jars. This meal can be left cooking i i for several hours cn the low heat with- 1 i out spoiling. -All that is necessary is to | ‘ replenish the water as required.