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      Title: 10 Easy Steps to Make Pressure Cooking a Pleasure
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  1.  Prepare ingredients following particular recipe you're chosen from
  this book.  Many meat recipes will for searing the meat before adding
  liquid to the cooker.

  2.  Pour the required amount of liquid into the cooker.  Since
  pressure cooking is cooking food in a steam atmosphere, this liquid
  is essential.
  3. Add foods and seasonings according to the recipe.  The Recipes is
  this book are for the 4-quart cooker; if you have the 6-quart, cooker
  may be increased by one-half.  NEVER fill your cooker  over 2/3 FULL;
  this allows for food expansion during cooking.

  4. Hold cover to light and look through vent pipe from underside of
  cover to be sure vent pipe opening is not blocked.  Another way is to
  run a pipe cleaner through the vent pipe.

  5. Fit cover on the cooker.  With the cooker handle in your left hand
  and the cover handle in your right, lock the cooker closed.

  6. Place the pressure regulator on vent pipe.

  7. Set the cooker on the range.  Turn the burner on high heat to
  exhaust air from the cooker.

  8.  When cooking pressure, 15 pounds, is reached, the pressure
  regulator begins to rock.  Immediately start to count the cooking
  time specified in capital letters in the recipe.  At the same time,
  lower the heat of the burner, use just enough heat to maintain
  pressure during cooking. Don't risk overcooking foods; 1 minute of
  pressure cooking equals 3 minutes regular cooking.  If the recipe
  directions say COOK 0 MINUTES, this means to cook food only until
  cooking pressure, 15 pounds, is reached, then remove cooker from heat
  and cool according to recipe.

  9.  As soon as the cooking timer rings, reduce pressure as directed
  in the recipe.  To "let  pressure drop of its own accord," set cooker
  aside to cool.  This usually takes about 5 minutes. This additional
  time must be reckoned into the total cooking period if you wish to
  serve your family on the dot. To "cool  cooker at once", place it
  under cold running water or place it in a pan or sink full of cold
  water.

  10.  After pressure has been completely reduced, first remove
  pressure regulator, then cooker cover.  Remove food to serving to
  serving dish. If desired, reheat cooker -WITHOUT PRESSURE- to
  thicken gravy or sauce to accompany food.

  Source: Pressure Cooking is Pleasure Cooking by Patricia Phillips
  Brought to you and yours via Nancy O'Brion and her Meal-Master.
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