Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1912-08-15
PAPER BAG
COOKING
Great System Perfected BY N
Soyer, Famous London Chef
lNsuREs ECONOMY OF rus,
BY Martha Mecuiloch VILLA.

oy martha MeculIoch William.
Paper bag cooking econon,'~..
fsei-the FACT 10 demonstrate no
yond . doubt Particularly - ~.
fuel In gas. The figures 20 follow 49,.
given for gas. but arc easy O, 80
lation into coal heat or even OIL
The oven OF gas range turned y,
full. burns twenty feet O. ~.
hour for each fiamebar. Conm,,-,
there are two bars-thus. the horr,y
consumption at full head Is for,y ,,,,
The giant burner on top l!keeise
At full head. consumes twenty f.e, q,
hour. tho small burners. each Ton
feet Thus Q stove In full comrIs
sion for pot and pan cooking consume.
ninety feet an hour.
Now. for paper bag cooking ~.
oven must be lighted and turned IN
full for eight minutes before apy.
thing goes into Il: Il must also bp,,
full strength forseven minutes losg.,
Thus. II consumes ten feet OF A. -,
the outset Turning out one burner =,
reduce the heat onehalf at the e,d
OF the seven minute period reduce.
| consumption 10 rfteen feet f.- 80
rest OF tho hour. making a to,,l ii,
twenty-five feet against forty pY,
roasting does not demand that a ng,.
ner goes fuil-turnins II down nigh,
| save b'e feet In the hour. Thus he
net hour-saving OF Eas on tho oven
account 10 ten feet
But there are other account Nv
help OF paper bags. you can not .pe-e
iy roast ID tho oven. but cook "a, "a.
same time q couple OF vegetable and
bake . pie or pudding with d small
roast you may even cook three ,es
e,ablea thereby leaving unlri,ea
three upper jets. which would mean
a Saving OF thirty fee, OF gas an hour
Cooking thus solely Ia the oven
means q saving OF nfty fee, o, gas
An hour.
Nor IL this even all the story Nv,
tsriously. things cook more quickly
In bags than out OF them Tho .at.
Ing - time Ia onsnfth 20 oncsr,A
Putting this st the lowest and ,stl
mating the whole range cousur 10
OF gas at ninety feet. there 10 fAy.
Ing Of n'teen feet Add th"m 2. be
ofty feet already In credit. auI ue
sum u nattering. indeed. To the paper
bag
a Little story Of PIE essrs
I had baked q pie a Ia soyer A1i
found IL good. Notwithstand!ng 20
worth OF the bagcooking
made up pun paste enoush 'ar
three pies. rolled out the crusis ard
allied pan. using cooked 'resh
peaches for q nlling put q or %
cook. In its naked majesty. moths ,ae
time accurately. II took ten an.
utes 20 roll crus,s. al. and pa, r a
creased bag the second pie Tho
oven was so hot by that time 'hAf
Stacked the heat q minute afier -'
ting In pie number two. After twenty
minutes-thirty minutes nom ru''rg
IN the hrst pie-l looked In tho ot.r
The naked pie was cooking cred ably
enough. yet was pale-fAccd. aud 'to
crust still dentable to the touch Flr-
Their. there were bubbles OF rl2
along sundry spaces OF tho edge.
I turned on a little moro heat ard
left the two pies 20 cook fifteen r.a-
utss longer. The naked one vas 'tea
a pale. delicate brown on top. a'a
rather a hard undercrust Tho Ak
was brown all over and 90 crisp '.e
corners orumbled at the touch. r-'
from II came a pic beautiful 10 .r
hold-lisht. not pale brown. crisp aei
naky as 20 crust. ready 20 leave She
ran at the frst tilt. for a plate.
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