New-York tribune., 1911-11-30
Thanksgiving Ofd-Bffs
Done i'm Paper Bags
Livers, Hearts. Brains, Sweetbreads. Kidneys
All Can Be Deliciously Prepared for the
Table by the Soyer Method,

Give instant allegiance 10 paper bag
cookery, all ye who dote upon inner grow
ing tdbits-livers. for example, and hearts,
brains. sweetbreads, kidneys
There are livers and llyers. Chicken
/ livers are much In request. Take six. fresh
and sound. Wash very clean in cold
water, drain well. salt very lightly, but do
not pepper. Barely dust with flour then
wrap each liver in a very thin slice Of
streaky bacon, skcwer II on with q tooth
pick and clip off the sharp ends after
skewcriHg. Lay compaCtly but without
crowding i'm a well-buttered bag add a
| teaspoonful OF water, a tablespoonful Of
tomato catsup, or fresh tomatoes peeled
and sliced, or else half a gill Of stock,
favored with celery: seal and cook twenty
five minutes in a fairly hot oven. Open the
bag the least bit on top before taking up
# the contents are not quite brown, cook
five minutes longer.
Gitlet patties suit some palates To make
them. parboil the giblets. mash or mince
fine. throwing out all strings or Jumps
season with salt and pepper 20 taste also
shrcds of onion and very little celery,
with. If you like. q CRATE Of nutmeg or of
lemon peel. Mosten with melted butter or
rich stock. cut five inch squares OF good pun
paste, cover half each diagonally with the
prepared liver. fold over the other half,
pinch tight together, and bake In we'll
creased bag fifteen minutes in a fairly hot
oven.
Parboil a pound of calfs liver. When
tender, but not ragged, take up cool and
cut in strips as thick as they are wide.
Wrap each strip I'm slice Of thin bacon.
roll In flour, put in bag with II little but
ter-the bag must be well greascd-and
cook for ten minutes in a not oven.
Baked lambs heart IS much approved 10y
those who like that sort OF thing. Get
three hearts cut out the tops and soak at
least two hours in cold slightly salteo
water TO remove the blood. Take out,
rinse. drain well. stuff with bread crumbs
or any stuhing approved-even plain
mashed potatoes or boiled rice will answer
Fasten the tops well over the stufiins.
Law in q well-buttered bag and cook 10:
0ftv minutes TO an hour in a fairly hot
oven. II you like things rather soft add
spoonful of stock. water, or milk ana
water. 20 the hearts before putting them
or the fire.
Beef heart can be cooked the same way,
I VI must SOAK lOlEil INV i4NN'' -
Il must also cook longer, the time depend
ing on the weight a zest OF onion ia ''o
stuffng improves IT, So does tomato cat
SUP In the bag with It while II Is ROASTING
or you may flavor the stuhng with catsuP
and merely put a bit o. butter anu "
tablespoonful OF water in the bag
split and clean lamb kidneys. scald u
lightly salted water very quickly, drop III
cold water d minute or two, then cut III
quarters Take a spoonful OF hour ana
season IL we'll with salt. pepper ana very
little grated nutmeg Roll the quArtereu
kidneys In il, then shake upon each a SIN
oie dron of tabasco. Get fine ske"er
and have ready thin sliced streaky bacon
Thread one end Of slice on the she"eF'
,bor mt on n piece Of kidney double the
free end of the bacon over tAe punt "i4N
skever II fast Ado another piece OF klu
nov fold the bacon again. When the
sl,ce cives out put on & fresh one Leave
r,. noint of the skewer projecting almost
an ,ncb then stick over the point piece
80 ,rhite uotato so that II will not tear the
.hoc F7u as many skewers as needed lay
,Tor, no,nts foremost-that IS, toward the
r,o,,tb-ip a well-buttered bag. Add a lump
Of butter rolled III llOu4 o'iN "
of tomato catsup, or half spoonIuI Oh
Worcestershire sauce. and the same amount
~ water. Seal and cook In hot oven III
too, IN twenty-five minutes, depending on
nor. heavily the bag Is loaded. Tear little
hole I'm the top before taking up ana Il
NOT tender enough cook five to ten MIN
utes longer
Chicken livers. or those Of squad. can be
cool<ed I'm the same manner leaving OUT
tho cotsup and adding only the butter
goef kidney. sliced rather thin, highly sea
e,nad. and cooked between thin slices OF
bacon for twelve minutes Ia a not oven
&c a near approach to grilled kidney.
Elanch sweet breads by scalding them
in sIirhtly salted water, then parnoA ana
M, between plates 10 press. Trim neatly
,ut in very well creased bag with
esuce of butter. cream, sherry wine ana
s,asoninp-ouly he careful 10 touch lightly
,.t,n the berbs-and cook forty minutes to
-. nour in an even oven only moderately
hot Parboned vegetablcs-gre peas.
80 rotatoes. even very young onions
NV ~ added 10 the bag In that case
a., ,oaeon the sauce more lightly. serve on
= very hot dish with the Vegctanles III III
q, bcope around II. wall OF nashtu
uotato around all is both decorative anu
filling. - ..,,-+ D.. ecaided i'm
lb3iitll brai's cit water. peeled and dropped in
Ia ,rotnr for at least ten minutes. faH
an hour will not hurt The ways 1t -oon-
TGm o., ,Le,u are many. For scrambled brains
rsrboIl them until they just beslh l"