Run, don't walk to ebay!! Would you believe they have them up for auction?!!? From 1908 on incredible Eliz On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:36 PM, <vjspringer@aol.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > In keeping with my stories that I put into my genealogy I am trying to find information on what my mom called a Fireless Cooker.  They had them in the 1940s  It was a oven size metal box with something like bricks  (or heaven forbid asbestos) to retain the heat and keep the food cooking. > When we went to church on Sunday we used it.  My mom would brown the meat and it finished cooking the chicken or roast or whatever.  We had dinner when we got home or shortly thereafter. > There was no leaving the oven on while we were away like we do with crock pots now. > > I  would like to find some information about it.  I would especially like to find a picture of one  and know what was used in the interior.I did hope that maybe someone had an old booklet tht went with one so that  I could get  a picture and information.  I tried Google and got nothing.  My mom > called it a fireless cooker but maybe that was not its name. > > Thanks for any help that you can be. > > Velma > VJSpringer@aol.com > > ===== > If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message