Posted by John Lambert on December 05, 2006 at 22:11:36 from 24.80.117.76 user John.
In Reply to: Re: cooking in Mrs. Dixon's kitchen posted by David Bamford on December 05, 2006 at 18:53:31:
When we first came to Canada in 1948 my mother used a heavy black stove for cooking. It had four circular dinguses and a thimgummy (a lifter?), but even over the firebox there was never enough heat to cook things properly Although steam would trickle slowly from the kettle spout, the water would never boil. I'm not quite sure if you could fry things like eggs and bacon on such a stove, but others may have had different experiences. I don't think she ever removed one of those round dinguses to cook food quickly. Come to think of it, how did she cook bacon and eggs?