found this blog while doing a word search for warrens cooking pot, which I had read of in kenney-herbert's culinary jottings. gherkinsandtomatoes has other posts on things as interesting as the warren cooker, mixed with recipies and meditations on food and cooking.
“A Warren's cooking pot, fitted to the stove, is furnished for £1-1, and a griller for five shillings and sixpence. "When not wanted for cooking, it can bo used for heating a room, for which purpose, you use the radiator, or ornamental chimney, previously mentioned. Thus adjusted, it is also very useful for airing damp linen, or drying wet clothes ; you have merely to place a largo circular basket over it, and spread the things thereon, for the chimney is so contrived that the heat radiates laterally, and”
Excerpt From: Kenney-Herbert, A. R. (Arthur Robert), 1840-1916. “Culinary jottings : a treatise in thirty chapters on reformed cookery for Anglo-Indian rites ...” Madras : Higginbotham and Co., 1885. iBooks.
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