Cookin' With Coal

 
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Post by jedneck » Fri. Dec. 14, 2018 8:12 pm

Simple comfort food. Sausage, taters, cabbage and onion.

Is it a bad thing i have more ranges than chimneys :baby:

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Post by Photog200 » Sat. Dec. 15, 2018 5:30 am

jedneck wrote:
Fri. Dec. 14, 2018 8:12 pm
Simple comfort food. Sausage, taters, cabbage and onion.

Is it a bad thing i have more tanges thsn chimneys :baby:
I made a similar dinner last night, only I cooked a smoked ham hock and opened one of my jars of sauerkraut. Cooked with potatoes and carrots. I like the looks of that range!

 
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Post by Homesteader » Sat. Dec. 15, 2018 7:32 am

I've always envied you folks that have nice cook stoves and wish I had a way to set one up until I had a "Dah Ahah" moment when loading the Harman. Gee nice flat top so why not. Stew time:
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Eggs & Homefries tomorrow.

 
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Post by jedneck » Sat. Dec. 15, 2018 8:37 am

Photog200 wrote:
Sat. Dec. 15, 2018 5:30 am
I like the looks of that range!
Is nice range but it a better wood burner than coal. Stupid duplex grates. I just bought 3 columbian ranges and one is gonna be replacing the south bend. It has prismatic grates :yes:

 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Sat. Dec. 15, 2018 11:20 am

Homesteader wrote:
Sat. Dec. 15, 2018 7:32 am
I've always envied you folks that have nice cook stoves and wish I had a way to set one up until I had a "Dah Ahah" moment when loading the Harman. Gee nice flat top so why not. Stew time:
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Eggs & Homefries tomorrow.
You've brought it full circle - the earliest cook stoves were just an iron box to contain the fire with a flat top to cook on.

Ovens were an add-on that became permanent part of cook stoves as they developed into what we know as the kitchen "range". :yes:

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Post by charlesosborne2002 » Sat. Dec. 15, 2018 12:04 pm

There is a cooking program on PBS about Colonial American cooking--iron pots and pans using an open fireplace. They do some pretty fancy cooking that way using all sorts of clever racks and whatnot. By Civil War times, big homes had iron stoves, but they were in a separate building behind the dining room, because of the heat. Thomas Jefferson invented a dumb waiter to bring food from the basement kitchen to the dining room above. A ventilated basement was cooler than the main house.

 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Sun. Dec. 16, 2018 10:38 am

Last night Melissa cooked seared scallops, and rice with a sweet brown sauce, ....while baking cherry-filled cookies for Church coffee hour this morning.

I still think she bought me the range just so she gets to have fun cooking on it, while I get to haul coal and empty ashes. :lol:

Not that I'm complaining, what with the constant warmth and great food that comes from it !!!!

Enjoy

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Post by jedneck » Sun. Dec. 16, 2018 2:40 pm

Got a beer bread in oven. Is a quick eazy bread.

Ingredients
3 cups all purpose flour
1 tablespoon bakin powder
1/2 to 1 teaspoon salt
2 12 oz beers.

Method
Heat oven to 400f
Drink one beer
Mix dry ingredients together
Add 2nd beer to dry ingredients and stir til all moist
Put in 5x9 loaf pan and bake in oven for 45-60min

If oven not hot enuf i use senses to tell when done

 
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Post by Photog200 » Sun. Dec. 16, 2018 4:34 pm

jedneck wrote:
Sun. Dec. 16, 2018 2:40 pm
Got a beer bread in oven. Is a quick eazy bread.

Ingredients
3 cups all purpose flour
1 tablespoon bakin powder
1/2 to 1 teaspoon salt
2 12 oz beers.

Method
Heat oven to 400f
Drink one beer
Mix dry ingredients together
Add 2nd beer to dry ingredients and stir til all moist
Put in 5x9 loaf pan and bake in oven for 45-60min

If oven not hot enuf i use senses to tell when done

Sounds like a similar recipe I am using while making chicken wings in my oven. Instead of frying them first, they are in the oven, then will put the hot sauce on them. Of course I did not have the regular hot sauce that I ALWAYS have on hand, I had to make my own...after another beer, I will let you know how it turns out. :D
Randy

 
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Post by jedneck » Sun. Dec. 16, 2018 4:36 pm

got keilbasa on bed of sourkraut in oven and pot of taters, sweet taters n turnips on stove for mashed.

and burn mess of peanut shells to get rid off them after eaten the peanuts

 
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Post by D.lapan » Sun. Dec. 16, 2018 5:06 pm

Just left my grams and she loaded me up with some of her old cookstove accessories, a add in oven and a steamer set
Dana

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Post by Sunny Boy » Tue. Dec. 18, 2018 9:18 am

D.lapan wrote:
Sun. Dec. 16, 2018 5:06 pm
Just left my grams and she loaded me up with some of her old cookstove accessories, a add in oven and a steamer set
Dana
Can you show more about them and how she may have used them ?

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Post by D.lapan » Tue. Dec. 18, 2018 9:35 am

Sure, the steamer you put about 2 cups of water in the bottom, and if any veggies need boiling they get tossed in the bottom, the next level you put green beans or peas or whatever you want steam cooked and the same with the next level, cook until done however crunchy or mushy you like, the oven I now have 2 has a series of racks inside and a simple spring gauge which says low, med and high for heat, it has no bottom and sits directly on any hot stove top, she said when they were making multiple dishes she would bust this out and do casseroles and other things that would need baking under 350*
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Post by Pauliewog » Tue. Dec. 18, 2018 12:26 pm

At this year's Meet & Greet we had the opportunity to not only tour the Hitzer facility but also the Amish owned Schwartz Manufacturing Plant.

One of the products still built there today is the stove top oven which he proudly referred to as "Our Amish Microwave " :D

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Post by jedneck » Tue. Dec. 18, 2018 9:12 pm

Forgot how even the oven heats. Only a 1/4 turn needed 3/4 way through.

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