The stove is here



At last I have a real antique wood burning cook stove

 Well it has arrived!!! The stove is home and in the garage for now. Of course being me, I could not wait to see it work so even without stove pipes I put a real small stick fire on and watched her run. Smoky as all get out! Going to take some cleaning up and some repair work which I will post here as it may be of interest to some as to what is inside a stove and how to repair old ones for use.
For now it will sit until I can get some time to work on it and it does work!!! Happy happy happy here!!!

A stove has been bought

The 1925 Home Comfort cook book

After searching for parts and info I have decided to buy the Home Comfort stove. I made the deal with the owner and will be picking it up this coming weekend. It will go in the garage until I have time to do small repairs and to make the spot in the house ready for it. I have to put down tiles on the floor and wall where it will be and have to punch a hole through the wall of the house to the outside world for the stove pipe. I am not looking forward to making a hole in my house, but it has to be done. I did not get the chance to try the peach and pecan pie last weekend like I had hoped to. I was able to think of some ways to do it and I got a copy of the 1925 Home Comfort cook book. It is a reprint of the original and since it had a list and photos of all the parts of the stove, it helped me decide to buy the one I had looked at. Another update when the stove is home.

First recipe attempt

My Wife Joanne had an idea that I really liked and I hope to give it a try this weekend. Peach and Pecan pie! What flavors could go better together than that? Well, ANYTHING with Bacon of course, but pie wise this has to be tops. I am going to use a 100 year old Pecan Pie recipe and then play around using small pie tins and different techniques until I figure out a real good one and then I will post the recipe here. Sadly I will have to do this on the modern stove and oven as I don't have the wood one yet, but I am itching to get cooking so it just has to be. At least the recipe is old.

It begins

Welcome folks, The first post! I don't really know how to start.This is about old school food. The way it used to be. There is something special about food made the old fashioned way. It just tastes better. A propane grill or even a charcoal grill can't compare to an open fire and cast iron cookware meal. Nor can it compare to bread baked in an antique wood fired kitchen stove. I already have an outdoor wood cooking site on our property, but have yet to buy a wood fired stove for the kitchen. So the first steps in this instructional blog is going to be finding, buying and installing an antiques wood fired cook stove. So far I have looked at 2 stoves, a Kalamazoo Prince and a Home Comfort. The Kalamazoo had a huge crack in the front of the stove so that the oven door would not close. The Home Comfort was in nice shape, but was missing some key parts. If I can find a source for the parts, I am going to try and buy the Home Comfort stove and do the repair work myself.

This is a Kalamazoo Prince stove. A very nice model and pretty easy to find.

This is the Home Comfort model. I prefer this model to the Kalamazoo. Both were made in the 1920s or 1930s and both are enameled models. Both have warming ovens and both can burn wood or coal. Either one would work well, but for some reason I like the Home Comfort one better.