Not even King Alfred _himsolf, preoccupied witt cares of State, would have burned the cakes in modern kitchen were it fitted with a regula-controlled automatic cooker. It is another of those contrivances which, slowly but surely fare revolutionising the kitchen and reducing the problems of the house wife to a minimum, Having once placed the prepared dishes in the oven, and set the regula dial, she can go off shopping, visiting, or whatever she will until the fixed time for removing them from the oven. Not once need the oven door be opened, and not a single anxious thought need she give to the possible fate of her meal, The stove does the cooking without _when, once the regula set.
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