New-York tribune., 1911-12-05
Some Menus in Which
Good Things Compile
uent One Another.
BY Martha McCulloch Williams.

Things edible have afinlties other than
chemical ones. I'm that they are like we
who eat them. ] am pretty sure that the
very first cook recognized the fact that
sundry substances went we'll with each
other. i'm fact. that they went together
Like perfect music unto noble words.
Pork and beans. mutton and turnips, beef
and brown potatoes-who shall gainsay the
excellence OF their couplings? Certainly.
no man nor woman Of normal appetite
who In feeding upon ono has siged regret
for its proper complement
This. though IT may sound a far cry
from paper bag cooking, is nevertheless
germane to the subject since to-day's
space will be given to bagging things that
fit each other
Here is dinner menu, easy but nour-
ishng, not so costly. and capable Of being
prepared, cooked and served inside two
hours
Roast beef. stuffed, rooled round.
Sliced potatoes Baked apples.
Cold slaw.
Banana puffS
Black coffee. Sailed peanuts
Have the round cut rather long and as
thick as need be Butter ii on both sides,
salt and pepper lightly. cover the upper
side with bread crumb stuaing seasoned
with onion. roll up, tie and seal in well
creased Rag, with lump of butter or
clarified drppings and a spoonful OF water.
Put i'm a hot oven for three minutes, elk
heat and cook until done. allowing fifteen
TO twenty minutes to the pound. If toma-
toes are at hand put one or two. peeled
and sliced, in with the meat. The gravy
will he better and the meat itself more
piquant
Slice peeled potatoes thin, drop in cold
water. drain out, put in creased bag
after sprinkling very lightly with salt add
a little extra grease. seal and COOK hfteen
TO thirty minutes in a fairly hot oven. the
time depending on the quantity in the bag
Wash the apples well, but do not peel;
cut out specks and bruises core, fill the
bottom Of the core space with lump OF
butter. over which pile sugar and add
bit OF cinnamon. \ Glove stuck in the side
may take the place Of the cinnamon. Seal
inside a well creased bag and bake egh-
teen 10 twenty minutes I'm a fairly hot
oven. Servo with sugar and cream or
out sugar, if desired.
Make cold slaw IN the usual way, and
the salted peanuts as follows after blanch-
ing and drying them: Put I'm a thickly but
tered bag, set in a very hot oven for half
q minute: then reduce the heat three-quar-
tcrs and leave nuts 10 brown for ten min
utes longer. They will come out crisp and
beautiful. needing only a sprinkling of salt.
To make the banana puffs. roll out good
puf paste quarter-inch thick and cut II
i'm squares six inches across. Cover halt
Of each square diagnonally with bananas
sliced thin and soaked for half an. hour
I'm sugar and lemon juice. Put spoonful
OF the Juice over the slices then fold over
the paste. pinch tight. slip IN creased
bag and bake twelve minutes in hot oven.
bananas. always cheap and among the
most nourishing Of the fruits, ought TO he
more used i'm cookery.
Here is another good meal for nip
ping winter day
Pork Tcnderloins, Roasted with Sweet
Cabbage Pudding. o'''0'S stcwcd Carrots.
Celery.
Annie Dumping, cider Sauscs
Coffee. Cheese. crackers
Have the tcnderloius split lengthvise and
out them I'm halves Wipe with clean
damn cloth. rub over with butter or drip
ming. season lightly with salt and pepper
and Law I'm a well creased bag along with
raw sweet potatoes. peeled and haived' or
ouartered If very large Add n lump oI
fat butter or dripping, rolled in niue
nour. also a tablespoonful of water. Seal
bac and cook IN hot oven thrty-hve
minutes to an hour. according TO the guam
titv Of food i'm the bag. Slack heat after
five minutes SLOW. steady cooking makes
the meat tender. yet full Of flavor.
Choose n tender cabbage for the pudding
Shred II fine. then drop in boiling salted
wafer and cook uncovered at fun boil ten
r,ir,tes Drain out run cold water
,bro,ob r. then mix Il thoroughly through
., Mint of milk which has been beaten well
,rltb two eggs and season with salt and
rerrer II the cabbage IS small use one
ao, and half pint Of milk Have the bag
tbicIl,, creased and sprinkle # inside with
orated cheese. Put I'm the mixture by big
enoonfu1s. add a lump Of butter and
enrinlle in more cheese between the spoon
fnls Seal very tight. lay on a trivet put
10 hot oven for three minutes, then slack
hoat and cook for at least an hour-longer
~ tho bag is large. or, II you like, YOU can
Iea,,e ont the cheese until the pudding is
cooked then cut a square from tho top of
the bag, sprinkle cheese thickly over the