http://resurrectedrecipes.com/2009/11/01/recipes-for-your-hotpoint-electric-range/ This IS your grandma's cooking. Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:28:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://resurrectedrecipes.com/2009/11/01/recipes-for-your-hotpoint-electric-range/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Wendi Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:50:15 +0000 http://resurrectedrecipes.com/?p=108#comment-39 Thrift cookers appear to have been common for 30 years or so. I wonder why they stopped making stoves with them. Or did they? I haven't seen any recent stoves with them, but I suppose there might be one somewhere. Thrift cookers appear to have been common for 30 years or so. I wonder why they stopped making stoves with them. Or did they? I haven’t seen any recent stoves with them, but I suppose there might be one somewhere.

]]> http://resurrectedrecipes.com/2009/11/01/recipes-for-your-hotpoint-electric-range/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Lois Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:33:33 +0000 http://resurrectedrecipes.com/?p=108#comment-38 I am old enough to remember my Mother using the thrift cooker or as she used to say it was the "deep well". So many of our meals came from that well. It was clean and out of the way and there was no need to have to worry about a place to store the slow cooker. I too just happened to come upon an old booklet titled Simplified Cooking Instructions for Using Your General Electric Range that also contained all the things you mentioned and I would gladly change my electric range for it any day. I think the date on this is 1954. Sometimes new is not necessarily the best JMO I am old enough to remember my Mother using the thrift cooker or as she used to say it was the “deep well”. So many of our meals came from that well. It was clean and out of the way and there was no need to have to worry about a place to store the slow cooker.
I too just happened to come upon an old booklet titled Simplified Cooking Instructions for Using Your General Electric Range that also contained all the things you mentioned and I would gladly change my electric range for it any day. I think the date on this is 1954.
Sometimes new is not necessarily the best JMO

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