Consuming Thoughts by Fay Strickler °enn State Extension Home Economist For Berks Co. You and dry bean cookery ha' a friend the crockery style cooker. These electric low temperature-long time cookers are ideally suited for the preparation of tasty bean dishes. Crockery cookers have a long heritage including low tempera ture cooking of foods in earthen ware pottery buried under open fire coals for many hours, fol lowed by cast iron skillets in ovens, and now as countertop units with removable ceramic crocks. Home use of crockery style cookers has increased dramatical ly in recent years because of their convenience, versatility and adap tability to fine recipes. These cookers provide for slow, unat tended cooking of products at sub boiling temperatures, which' The synchronized reverser transmission in the AGCO Allis 6600 Series makes it easy to change direction. And that’s just one of the state-of-the-art features your AGCO Allis dealer wants to show you. 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Variations in heating time during low temperature cooking will not significantly change the textural properties. Furthermore, beans of different sizes or color classes can be readily blended and. cooked at low temperature. This provides for easy and successful preparation of mixed bean dishes. The pre-soaking and cooking pro cedures are combined into one SANDY LAKE IMPLEMENT B.H.M. FARM EQUIP., Sandy Lake, Pa. INC. 412-376-2469 Annville, Pa. 717-667-2211 NICHOLS FARM EQUIP. Bloomaburg, Pa. 717-764-7731 B. EQUIP., INC. Waynaabofia, Pa. 717-762-3163 when using the crockery cookers to further facilitate ease of Beans by the CrockfuU preparation. 1- Sort, clean and wash beans. The temperatures used in crock- 2. Place beans in ceramic crock cry cooking ate above the temper- (provide ample space for swelling, ature zone suitable for the ptolif- <l° not exceed 1/3 the capacity of eration of food poisoning organ- 1116 crock with dry beans.) isms, and products properly 3. 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