The World's Kitchen Log
Mrs. Sam P. McBirney
Tulsa World,
Monday, July 7, 1997
Her World
Page 4
There has been a new pressure cooker, of the size that can be easily handled, demonstrated in town recently, about which I have been much questioned. I wrote about this cooker a year ago after returning from the National Home Economics convention in Pittsburgh, where I ordered one at that time but only recently received it.
I am going on record only on the subject of vegetables, because I have not had the time to try it out with meat cookery. But if it did nothing more than cook vegetables, it would be worth every cent of it.
Recently, I cooked the potatoes for dinner in four minutes and while they were being mashed and steamed I turned out the nicest mess of carrots in less than two minutes of cooking, that you ever saw.
It is small and easily handled. It will not serve as a canning cooker at all and makes no claim for this honor. But, for the color and flavor of the vegetables it is wonderful.
I took the frozen Brussel's sprouts (Brussel's sprouts can be cooked until they are strong) and cooked them the time given on the card of directions and they were perfect. If you have wrinkled up you nose in horror at the terrific odors coming from the lower regions during the cooking of broccoli, you might appreciate something that got it over in about three minutes.
I talked to the buyer of the housewares department of the store that carries this cooker and suggested, and he seemed to think that it was good, that he keep one to be sent out and tried by the housewife and if she did not like it, allowing her to return it. I am not selling these. I am merely telling you about them.
AUNT CHICK.
Reprinted with permission from the Tulsa World.