Fireless Cook Books! Use for Thermal Cooker Recipes

May 10, 2012 — thermalcooker

Thermal cookers are not new and were known as Fireless Cookers a 100 years ago here in the USA.  Many old recipe books from that era are available online for free or have been republished and can be bought in book form.

Below are links to the online versions and reprinted versions of a number of cook book/recipe books on fireless cooking which can be used directly in a modern thermal cooker.  Some of the old recipe books reference a “radiator” which was often a soap stone or cement disk that was heated up on a stove and then placed in the insulated box under the pot that held the food.  The stone radiated heat and helped keep the temperatures up inside the cookers and even allowed for some baking to be done inside the fireless cook box.

The Fireless Cook Book by Author Margaret Mitchell
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24359…less_cook_book
Reprint of this book for sale at Amazon

The Duplex cook book, containing full instructions for cooking with the Duplex fireless stove
http://openlibrary.org/works/OL78905…plex_cook_book
Reprint of this book for sale at Amazon

Meals That Cook Themselves And Cut The Costs
http://openlibrary.org/works/OL75412…_cut_the_costs
Reprint of this book for sale at Amazon

Book of Caloric Recipes
http://openlibrary.org/works/OL23760…_stove_recipes
Reprint of this book for sale at Amazon

The Fireless Cooker, How to make it, How to use it, What to cook
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL6953828M/High_living
Reprint of this book for sale at Amazon

Fireless Cooker Recipes
http://openlibrary.org/works/OL13849…cooker_recipes
Reprint of this book for sale at Amazon

The Fireless Cooker
http://openlibrary.org/works/OL78867…ireless_cooker
Reprint of this book for sale at Amazon

Superior fireless cookery
http://openlibrary.org/works/OL13842…reless_cookery
Reprint of this book for sale at Amazon

Thermatic Fireless Cooker Recipes – A treatise on the management of the Thermatic fireless cooker, together with over 250 carefully selected recipes.
http://openlibrary.org/works/OL13840…lected_recipes
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The Winston cook book, planned for a family of four
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24160…family_of_four
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Simple Cooking of Wholesome Food for the Farm Home
http://openlibrary.org/works/OL78973…_the_farm_home
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Fireless Cookers – recipe books

July 28, 2008 — thermalcooker

Here is a list and links to a number of books written in the late 1800’s, early 1900’s on Fireless cooking.  They contain some great info on the method from recipes to how to make them and how to use some that were being sold at that time. These Fireless Recipe books are directly applicable for use as recipes in a thermal cooker, wonder box, wonder oven, hot box, hay box, or other retained heat cooking methods. The following are available to read and download online but are also available in reprinted books for purchase or to download on your Kindle.

The Fireless Cooker ( 1908 )

http://www.archive.org/stream/firelesscooker00huntrich

http://openlibrary.org/works/OL7886785W/–_The_fireless_cooker

Book of Caloric fireless cook stove recipes; a compilation of more than three hundred superior recipes of all kinds, meats, game, poultry, fish, cereals, vegetables … etc., especially adapted to the new Caloric fireless cookstove ([c1908])

http://www.archive.org/stream/bookofcaloricfir00calorich

The Fireless Cook Book : A Manual of the Construction and Use of Appliances for Cooking by Retained Heat : with 250 recipes (1913, c1909) by Margaret J. Mitchell

http://www.archive.org/stream/firelesscookbook00mitcrich

The Duplex cook book, containing full instructions for cooking with the Duplex fireless stove ([191-?])

http://www.archive.org/stream/duplexcookbookco00durhiala

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