The value of cereals as foods is admitted from the standpoint of economy as well as from that of nutrition. Served with milk and sugar, they have the same food value as meat. Almost without exception, the directions accompanying packages of cereals give too short a time for the cooking. It requires several hours to cook most cereals, if they are to be made digestible. In this one particular the Caloric Cookstove is worth infinitely more than it costs. It thoroughly cooks every kernel, preserving each perfectly whole and rendering the cereal soft as jelly. It is preferable to cook cereals in a Caloric double boiler, which is an extra equipment at a small cost. When, however, a small quantity is desired, it may be cooked in a vessel placed in the eight or twelve-quart utensil, surrounded by boiling water.

The water into which cereals is stirred should be boiling. Cook in the Caloric, using one radiator.

Boiled Rice

Put one cupful of washed rice, two cupfuls of boiling water and one level teaspoonful of salt into the double boiler. Cook one-half hour, using one radiator. A handful of raisins is a good addition. The rice may be cooked directly over a radiator, without using a double boiler.

Old Fashioned Oatmeal

One cupful of oatmeal; three and one-half cupfuls of water; one and one-half teaspoonfuls of salt. Stir the cereal slowly into the water and place in the Caloric for four or five hours, using one radiator. If not sufficiently hot at serving time, place the boiler over the fire until the water boils and the cereal is steaming. Serve with cream and sugar.

Oatmeal Gruel

Add one-half cupful of coarse oatmeal and one-half teaspoonful of salt, to three cupfuls of boiling water. Cook in the Caloric six hours. Force through a strainer and dilute with milk and cream. Reheat and serve.

Oatmeal Mush

Into three cupfuls of boiling water, put one level teaspoonful of salt and two and one-half cupfuls of oatmeal. Cook in the Caloric over night, using one radiator.

Rice Cooked In Milk

Heat to the boiling point one quart of milk. Into this put one cupful of washed rice, a pinch of salt, a piece of cinnamon bark and sugar to taste. Before serving, sprinkle sugar and cinnamon or mace over the rice. Cook in the double boiler in the Caloric one hour, using one radiator.

Rice Cooked In Milk With Apples

Cook one cupful of rice in one quart of milk, without seasoning, as directed in the above recipe. When it is cool, add sugar, lemon peel, a pinch of salt and two eggs. Grease a basin with butter and put the rice into it. Remove the cores from eight apples. Fill the cavities with sugar, add bits of butter and dust with cinnamon. Put the rice and apples into the Caloric and cook for two hours, using two radiators.

Rolled Wheat

One cupful of wheat; two and one-half cupfuls of water; one teaspoonful of salt. Cook the same as Old Fashioned Oatmeal.