author

Margaret Johnes Mitchell

b. 1869

A home-economics writer from the early 20th century, she is best known for a practical cookbook that explored retained-heat cooking. Her work reflects a time when household efficiency and ingenuity were central parts of everyday life.

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The Fireless Cook Book A Manual of the Construction and Use of Appliances for Cooking by Retained Heat, with 250 Recipes

The Fireless Cook Book A Manual of the Construction and Use of Appliances for Cooking by Retained Heat, with 250 Recipes

by Margaret Johnes Mitchell

About the author

Margaret Johnes Mitchell was an American author born in 1869. She is credited in library records as the author of The Fireless Cook Book: A Manual of the Construction and Use of Appliances for Cooking by Retained Heat, with 250 Recipes, published in 1913.

Her book focused on “fireless” cooking, a method that used retained heat to prepare food more efficiently. That practical subject places her within the tradition of early home-economics writers who aimed to make domestic work more manageable and economical.

Reliable biographical details about her life appear to be limited in the sources I could confirm, so much of her public legacy today centers on this cookbook and its glimpse into everyday household life in the early 1900s.