Extending the Table (World Community Cookbooks) by Joetta Handrich Schlabach

Author:Joetta Handrich Schlabach [Schlabach, Joetta Handrich]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MennoMedia
Published: 2012-12-07T00:00:00+00:00

Basket Cooking

The YWCA in Zambia promotes “basket cooking”—a nonelectric, ecologically sound slow cooking method—as part of its appropriate technology program. Many different containers and insulating materials can be used. Zambian women generally use baskets lined with hay or wild cotton. In Swaziland, refugee students from Mozambique constructed and sold cardboard “wonder boxes” that contained two cushions loosely filled with broken bits of styrofoam.

Basket cooking is ideal for rice, potatoes, stewed meat or chicken, and dried legumes. First bring the food to a boil in a short-handled pot with a tight-fitting lid on a regular stove. Then transfer the boiling pot into the basket or box, nesting it snugly between the cushions, and cover the box. The food will require approximately twice the normal cooking time, but will not use any additional energy. Some foods requiring long cooking need to be brought to a boil a second time and returned to the basket for further slow cooking.

Rice: Bring 1 cup of rice (250 ml) and 3/4 teaspoon salt (3 ml) to a boil in 2 scant cups of water (about 500 ml). Boil 2 minutes. Place in wonder box for 40 minutes.

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