Word: oven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trying tp stow it back in the loft. In about two minutes the place begins to put on a very good imitation of purgatory, for the sun is beating down mercilessly on a tin roof over your head, and the loft is one big black Stifling oven. I wish I had thought a little about that cow barn, back in the days when I was committing so many sins, in the world. It might have given me pause...
Poor Mrs. Ann Meyer with her oven-roasted chuck [TIME, Aug. 30]. I can sympathize. As a bride I once tried to fry a hen which was intended for fricassee. If Mrs. Meyer will learn to braise and potroast, she will enjoy many delicious roasts, stews, Swiss steaks...
Chuck roast is our weekend standby. We brown it slowly in an old-fashioned iron Dutch oven or heavy aluminum roaster. Bacon drippings, onions, celery tops, bay leaves, parsley, salt & pepper add flavor. When the meat is browned on both sides I add a little water, cover tightly, and let it barely simmer on top of the stove for about three hours, occasionally adding a little more water. Potatoes, carrots and celery are steamed on top of the roast during the last hour and a half . . . Roast and vegetables [make] a Sunday dinner for at least four people...
...Hundreds of migrating thrushes, oven-birds, warblers, redstarts, and red-eyed vireos got lost in the fog and crashed into the Empire State Building, littering the street below with dead and injured birds. Others thumped into tall structures in Baltimore and Philadelphia...
Winston Churchill, a sturdy monogamist himself, pointed out the loopholes to prospective wife-killers. If you are anxious to avoid hanging, he said, "you can strangle her, hold her head in a gas oven . . . stab her, cut her throat or bash her brains out. If you can arrange a procedure, you can set her on fire, push her off a station platform in front of an oncoming train, push her through the porthole of a ship, or, more easily, you can drown her in the bathtub...