The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-01-18
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GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR PA
PER Sag COOKING.

London.
do not claim for the paper-bag
system Of cookery that it can cook
everything. 1t is evident that tea
must still be made in the teapot.
Generally speaking, we may. waive
u claim to having mastered the
difficulty with respect to soups, al
though I have made beef tea with
excellent results. The following is a
list Of articles that may in the mean.
time be avoided:
Soup Except beef teal, omelette,,
scrambled eggs. jam Except in small
quantities), Scotch kale, beans, cab
bage, cauliflower, broccoli, artichokes,
macaroni or kindred Italian pastes.
The success of the system depends
entirely upon how it is carried out.
Good cooking requires time, care, at.
tention to detail, taste and a tempera-
ture suited to the particular dish
being cooked. While the paper-bag
system is labor and time saving, as
we'll as affording more nutritive and
appetizing effects than the present,
1t does not abrogate any of the rules
that apply to efficient work at the
ki~tchen-table.
The Bag.
Specially prepared bags should be
used. Without them the method can
not be practiced with assurance of
success. The bag should be made OF
materials that guarantee it's purity
1t should be odorless, and it's purity
a guarantee that nothing injurious
can possibly be impaired from it to
the food cooked in the bag.
Before using the bags
az Select one that 'fits" the food
intended to be cooked:
(2) Grease Slightly the inside O
the bag, except in the case of vege
tables or when water is added. Fo,
beginners it is advisable. Butter
lard or dripping may be used. :
(3) When the food has been pre-
pared for the bag, place the same OF
the table and lift the uppermost edg,
Of the bag while you insert the con
tents.
az Fold the mouth of the bag two
or three times and fasten with a clip
Strong wire paper-clips, obtainable O.
any stationer. answer the purpose. L
Is desirable to fold the corners of ths
bag so as to ecure as near as posi-
BILE a hermetical closing.
The Oven. O.,
Practically any oven will do. Paper
bag cookery is as we'll suited to a ga.
stove as it is to a coal oven, an cleo
tricity cooker or oil stove. always
provided the necessary heat is Sc
cured. The size of the oven makes
no difference to the cooking, only tt
the size of the article. b
Before placing the bag with it.
contents into a gas oven, the gas
should be lighted at least eight min
utes beforehand. The average over
heat should not be less than 200 de
grees Fahrenheit, and when the bas
Is put into the oven this ought to bt
reduced in eight minutes after to III
degrees. To find out the correct de
gree a thermometer, of course, is The
most accurate method; but expert
ence will soon teach the cook wha'
is required, and the color assumed by
a piece of paper placed in the over
will at n tell whether it is too no,
OF too cold.
In the case of coal-heated stoves
with solid shelves a wire broilel
should be used. This should b.
placed on the shelf with the bag con
tanning the food. 1t is necessary t.
emphasize the fact that. except IL