Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-02-28
PAPER BAG
COOKING
Great System Perfected by M.
Soyer, Famous LONDON Chef.
ITS MANY ECONOMIES.
BY Martha MccuIIoch William:

BY Martha MccuIoch Williams.
A dollars worth of paper bags will
De ample to cook for any average
family throughout a month. Add a
box of clips at ten cents-they will be
good for another month, and still an
other in careful hands-and the out
lay is still inconsiderable Add still
further fifty cents for greasing-a
pound of lard, half pound of butter,
half pound Of drippings- and the
total is still more than moderate. Not
withstanding, it is more than plenty
of US would care to spend monthly
merely in the interest of flavor or
even of ease. Plenty more of us like
to take duties laboriously, feeling that
thus we win to the kingdom of thrift.
So if there were no economic offset,
paper bag cooking would have to be
reckoned either a fad or luxury. 1t
Is neither-it has come to stay.
Say you pay three to four dollars
a month for gas-which is about a
fair average. If the paper bag cook
ing cuts this a third, it has almost
paid for itself at one fell swoop
Next comes the saving in quantity
of food cooked. Paper bag cooking is
qone-ffth to one-fourth ahead there.
1N pot cooking the scales show a
sshrinkage treble that of bag cooking.
This is a saving well worth while, yet
far from telling the whole story
Things bag-cooked nourish better be-
cause they are more readily digested
Set this extra nourishment at one
tenth of the food cost, and the food
cost for a family ten dollars a week.
Right there you have more the price
of bags, grease, clips, etc.-almost the
cost of the gas.
But even then the sum in domestic
economy is just fairly begun. Paper
bag cooking not only saves thus mega
lively by preventing loss and insur-
ing full edibility, but positively-and
in many, many ways, as, for example,
in the food bought. Round steak is
more nourishing than any Other-but
the fact has been held to be Offset by
the extra dentists bill the eating of it
necessitated. Paper bag cooking makes
it as tender as porterhouse itself
moreover, there is no bone to be thrown
away-nothing but clear meat. And
the favorable difference in price runs
from eight to ten cents the pound.
Living is dearer in every way-the
one possible alienation of this in
creasing cost, without skimping of ap-
petites, is in buying things less costly
and so cooking them as to make the
A ~ Oi,a
Paper bag cooking will do it; it has
done it for me. Let's recapitulate.
Say one uses one hundred and fifty
bags in the month, and then allow sew
enty-fve cents for clips, lard, butter,
and dripping. This gives an initial
debit of two dollars beginning the &C
count thus:
DEBIT.
Paper bags, butter, clips, one
month 81 90
CREDIT.
Gas saved. MISREPRESENTATION. 81. 90
Saved in wear and tear Is per
cent? NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. so
Food saved ($10O a week. -. $500
Saved on meat (75 cents week. So 90
Roast Ducks, Banana Stuffing.
Wash your ducks we'll inside with
cold salt water-if they are wild ducks
let them lie in the salt water for fiji
teen minutes. Drain, wipe dry inside
and out, and season very lightly with
salt and paprika inside, sprinkling
black pepper on the outside. Set on
ice while you make a stuffing of ba-
nanas cut in small cubes, mixed with
their own bulk of toasted bread
crumbs and seasoned with salt, black
pepper, little chopped celery and
plenty of cold butter Stuff the ducks
lightly, truss firmly, grease well all
over and tie thin bacon over the
breasts. Put in a well CREASED bag,
fitting them close together. Add the
juice of lemon, wineglass of either
claret or sherry, seal bag and cook in
hot oven ten minutes, then slack
heat, and inish-it ought to require
about forty minutes more.
copyright, 1871 by Associated Literary