A delightful small hand-penned booklet, Beans On A Woodstove,is a collection of recipes for the wood cookstove and directions on how to operate the seldom-seen implement.
"As soon as you've built a successful fire, fill the tea kettle with water and set it on the middle of the stove. By the time its water gets hot it will start to sing - a pleasant little one note song which soon becomes part of your kitchen life and assures your subconscious that all is well. A few days of this and you will find that the minute the teakettle drops to a lower note your subconscious takes you straight to the woodbox for another stick to put in the stove. Old hands often find that they have kept the stove stoked all day without a conscious thought."
Aspiring cooks may want to fire up the wood cookstove to try Horse Bean Stew, Admiral's Navy Beans or perhaps Emergency Soup. Those not fortunate enough to own a wood cookstove, can prepare these treats on the modern-day stove.