THE
EVERYTHING
PRESSURE
COOKER
COOKBOOK
Pamela Rice Hahn
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THE EVERYTHING PRESSURE COOKER COOKBOOK
Dear Reader,
Like you, I'm always looking for ways to improve how I prepare food and how it tastes. Using a pressure cooker helps me do just that.
A pressure cooker not only lets me take inexpensive cuts of meat and turn them into succulent entres, it also saves me time. In the summer, it provides a way to simulate baking without raising the temperature in the kitchen by heating up the oven.
Today's assortment of safe pressure cookers adds to their versatility. Pressure cookers are available in four-, six-, and eight-quart pressure saucepans, as pressure skillets and braisers, pressure stockpots and canners, and countertop models.
This is my fifth cookbook for the Everything series. I truly enjoy finding innovative methods for fixing and adapting traditional methods to create tasty food. I'm fortunate that I get to pass that information along through the recipes in my cookbooks. The recipes were tested using the Cuisinart six-quart programmable electric pressure cooker and an assortment of Kuhn Rikon Duromatic and B/R/K models. (See Appendix B for information on pressure cooker manufacturers.)
Throughout the book I provide tips and suggestions to help you cook an endless assortment of family-friendly dishes. My sincere wish is that the time you spend cooking will be more enjoyable because I've helped make the food that comes out of your kitchen not only delicious but also easier to prepare.
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To all my visitors at CookingWithPam.com
Acknowledgments
For their help and support, I would like to thank everyone at Adams Media. For all of their hard work and perseverance, I would like to thank my agents, Sheree Bykofsky and Janet Rosen. Special thanks also go to my daughter, Lara Sutton; her husband, Randy; and the other joys in my life: Taylor, Charles, and Courtney; Ann, Andrew, Dennis, and Tony Rice; my mother; my sisters Kim, Tam, and Connie and their families, with special thanks to my nephew Brian Teeters; and Eric J. Ehlers, David Hebert, everybody at ProudPatriots.org, and my other online friends.
Introduction
THE PRESSURE COOKER MAKES it possible for you to prepare great-tasting food in ways that save you time and effort.
Pressure cookers aren't a new phenomena. In fact, pressure cookers were especially popular in the 1950s. Back in those days, the typical pressure cooker had a noisy rocking pressure valve on the lid. But because a pressure cooker didn't have an emergency mechanism in place to prevent the cooker from building up too much pressure, it had the tendency to have accidents. Those accidents forced the food inside the pressure cooker out. In other words, that sizzling hot food became sloppy, hot, airborne projectiles. Therefore, while it may not be technically correct to say that the pressure cooker would explode, the accident pretty much amounted to the same result. It's bad enough that you have to wash the dishes after you fix a meal; you don't want to have to wash gunk off of the ceiling, walls, and floors, too.
As you'll learn in Chapter 1, today's new generation of pressure cookers are much safer and easier to use. You'll find evidence of that when you take a quick look at this book. When you do, you'll see that there are recipes for food that can take you from breakfast to lunch to dinner. You can also make snacks, desserts, and dishes for special occasions.
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