Title: Mirro Matic Pressure Pan
Author: none specified
Date: 1961
Publisher: Mirro Aluminum Co.
ISBN: none
Length: 58 pages
Illustrations: line drawings
Quote: "The very first time you try the recipes in this book, whether you have cooked previously or not, you are going to have some very gratifying results."
Probably most of the homemakers who kept this book had cooked before, but not in a pressure cooker. The Mirro Matic Pressure Pan (Economy Model) was a basic model. Anything it could do, your pressure cooker can probably do better. So you can still use these recipes.
Probably the book will appeal most, though, to collectors of vintage cookbooks. The copy I have for sale has been thoroughly and lovingly used, and shows it, but it's complete and legible inside.
Recipes begin with timetables for basic cooked vegetable dishes, starting with raw or frozen veg, and stewed meats. They progress quickly, however, to things like potato salad, hasenpfeffer, Swedish meatballs, Irish stew, baked beans, tamales, pheasant, steamed brown bread, curries, and other traditional dishes that adapt well to pressure cooking. If you have a pressure cooker and enjoy using it to get slow-cooked flavors and textures in relatively short amounts of time, this book is for you.
I thought I was posting another review of a curiosity nobody else has. Wrong! Amazon has a copy, with a color photo on the cover that my copy does not have. Though used, the copy sold on Amazon has gone into collector prices, so the price of this book online will start at $10. It's not even a Fair Trade Book. Go ahead and buy it directly from Amazon if you prefer.
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