1914. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
61 
Pea Coal for Domestic Use. 
Relating to pea coal for domestic use, 
I have used nothing else for two years 
in both range and steam heater, which 
have revolving grates. Starting with 
clean grates it is necessary to get a good 
bed of wood to prevent coal from drop¬ 
ping through the grate excessively. My 
practice, however, is never to clean the 
furnace of dead ashes, after a fire has 
gone out, either accidentally or purpose¬ 
ly. There is always ample draft with a 
few inches of ash bed in the firepo't. In 
raking fires it is only necessary to use 
a little care to avoid loss of coal, and I 
might add that a small amount of coal 
in the ash represents a very small offset 
to the saving effected by the use of pea 
coal, and it can be recovered by screen¬ 
ing if desired. The fire in my steam- 
heater docs not go out at all during the 
entire season. The range fire is not quite 
as constant, but the coal is not to blame 
—but the domestic in whose care the 
range is. The use of pea coal is un¬ 
doubtedly a large economy—approximate¬ 
ly 25% of the fuel cost in a home. 
HERBEBT C. WILLIAMS. 
In the Fall of 1007 we moved from a 
medium-sized and modern house in the 
country, to a very large one that had 
been built years ago, with high ceilings 
and rooms much larger than ordinary, 
fitted with a hot air furnace, and we 
were informed by several persons that it 
was an impossibility to keep this house 
warm. Our coal dealer suggested that 
we try a ton of pea coal to bank the fire 
with at nights, and in this way save as 
much on the fuel bill as possible. Among 
other things he said that the pea coal was 
of even better quality on the average 
than the larger sizes, as the slates would 
not be as apt to break up as the good 
coal would, which looked reasonable, but 
in experience we have not been able to 
see anything that would bear out this 
statement. For about two or three nights 
we tried banking the furnace fire with the 
pea coal, but could see no advantage 
from its use and discontinued it. Along 
during the Spring, having used up our 
supply of chestnut coal for the kitchen 
range we decided to see what we could 
do with the pea, so as to get some return 
for our investment in it, not thinking of 
using it as regular fuel, but to our sur¬ 
prise we could not see any particular 
difference in amount consumed or results 
obtained. Our kitchen range is rarely 
out at night, as we find it cheaper to 
hold the fire, by closing the drafts than 
to let it out and light it again, but on an 
average of once in a month or two it will 
go out through forgetting to close the 
drafts at bedtime, and one of these times 
came along soon after starting the pea 
coal and we then learned a few things 
about it that may be of use to former in¬ 
quirers. 
We had always cleaned out the grate 
completely, and as it is a rotary one with 
a large space between the sections, we 
think it is as difficult a one as exists 
anywhere in which to burn the pea coal, 
but in our ignorance we lit the fire as 
usual with an average amount of wood 
for kindlings, and when burned to a point 
where the embers could be easily broken 
with the poker, put on the usual amount 
of coal, and in about 10 minutes, we had 
the whole business down in the aslipar. 
under the grate. We went at it again, 
this time using more wood so as to get 
a bigger he'd of coals, before putting on 
the pea coal, and with slightly better re¬ 
sults, inasmuch as we got a fire over about 
half the grate, at first, which by careful 
manipulation was gradually made to cov¬ 
er the whole surface, but the way the 
coal would run out of a scuttle and down 
through that opening in the grate was 
about like shelled corn running out of 
a hole in a bag. As soon as the fire 
covered the whole grate there was no 
more trouble, and the next time we had 
to light it, we took a piece of sheet iron 
and slipped it in over the grate from the 
front, something that the construction of 
our range allows, but would not be pos¬ 
sible in others, and since then we have 
made it a practice to leave enough of the 
oict ashes on the grate to cover it about 
an inch thick, and have no more trouble 
in lighting it; in fact think it kindles 
quicker than the larger coal does. When 
the pea coal was used up we purchased 
another ton of chestnut, but did not like 
it as well as the pea, so went back to 
the pea again and have continued its use 
ever since. It must be clean and well 
screened; we have had just one ton of 
it that was filled with dirt and fine 
screenings to the extent of -one-quarter 
of its bulk, and this it was impossible to 
burn ; it would lie dead in the fire, and 
as our chimney has a strong draft, it 
suggests that where a chimney has a poor 
draft the pea coal might not give as 
good results as the larger sizes. Here 
we pay $5 for pea and $15.50 for chestnut 
so it seems that in a New Jersey house¬ 
keeper’s case a trial would be well worth 
making, but she should see to it that the 
coal is clean and well screened, and that 
at no time is there less than an inch or 
two of either ashes or fire on top of 
grate, before adding coal and she will 
have no trouble in using the pea coal 
without any changes whatever to her 
range. To hold fire over night, we try 
to have the fire box about half full of 
coals that are burning briskly, and then 
at bedtime fill firebox up level full with 
coal, and close dampers and open check 
damper in upper front door, and there 
is very little coal consumed overnight. 
We usually fix fire at nine, and any¬ 
where from six to eight next morning, 
by simply throwing wide all dampers, 
cook breakfast for family of seven with¬ 
out adding any more fuel to the fire than 
was put on it the night before. T. S. 
What Aunt Sally Served to Guests. 
“I’ve always been thankful for living 
in Aunt Sally’s home, and that Aunt 
Sally’s time wasn’t the time of salads 
and mayonnaises and food frills and ruf¬ 
fles,” said Uncle Billy. 
“What would Aunt Sally do when 
guests came unexpectedly to her?” 
Lots of them came that way, for she 
and Uncle Joe were very hospitable. They 
came to her in the stage or in big wag¬ 
ons drawn by horses; there wore no trol¬ 
ley lines through the country then; no 
autobuses nor private horseless car¬ 
riages. Her afternoon guests always 
came early and tea was always served 
early, while I, or Betty, who lived with 
Aunt Sally many years, started a fire 
in the cook stove in the shed or Summer 
kitchen, Aunt Sally would move about 
putting extra touches to the table, which 
was always laid in the cool darkened 
kitchen. Without any hurry—Aunt Sally 
was never hurried nor flustered—she 
would sift a quart of flour into her mix¬ 
ing bowl, a pinch of salt, half teaspoonful 
of soda, the same of cream of tartar. 
This she would moisten with a teacup of 
sour cream—putting part buttermilk if 
cream wasn’t sour enough; stir lightly, 
roll on molding board and cut into bis¬ 
cuits handling as little as possible. In 
20 minutes these would come from th • 
oven the lightest, whitest, fluffiest things 
imaginable, and served with honey (they 
nearly always had honey at Uncle Joe’sj 
they were “food for the gods.” 
What else? If she had cold potatoes 
left over from dinner—baked ones pre¬ 
ferred—she would peel, cut in thin slices, 
pile in her “spider” with a sprinkling of 
salt and a good-sized piece of butter atop, 
and pour milk over it. She would set 
the “spider,” covered, over—not down oil 
the fire—and let warm through slowly 
but thoroughly when she would pour fresh 
cream over them and cut them (not mash 
them) down through with a knife. No 
potato salad that ever was concocted 
equalled Aunt Sally’s creamed potatoes. 
Of course there were other things. A roll 
of pot cheese, eggs scrambled with 
dried beef or scrambled without beef, 
or hard boiled and peeled and laid 
on a platter. Fruit cake, months old, 
surreptitiously fetched from the box be¬ 
hind the parlor tete-a-tete, or jumbles 
which were hidden away from “the boys” 
■—Uncle Joe was one of the boys—in a 
stone jar in the spare bedroom. And 
th.-re was fruit, spiced, pickled, canned or 
fresh, products of the farm, and tea, and 
a glass pitcher of sparkling water from 
the well with the sweep bucket in it, and 
milk kept close to the cold spring in the 
cellar, and fresh rich buttermilk. The 
latter was usually served with ginger¬ 
bread or johnny cake. Aunt Sally’s 
johnny cake and apple sauce are worth 
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