The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1912-04-11
ITS MANY ECONOMIES.

A dollars worth OF paper bags will
be ample to cook for any average
family Throughout a month. Add a
box OF clips at ten ccnts-they will be
other in careful hands--and the out
lay is still inconside&able. Add still
further fifty cents tee greasing--a
pound OF lard, half pound OF butter,
half pound Of dripplnss-andt the
total still more than moderate. Not.
withstanding, 1t is more than p.snty
OF US would care to spend month";
merely in the interest Of flavor or
eve: OF ease. Plenty more Of US liks
TO take duties laboriOusly, feeling tfas
th0s we lin to the kingdom OF thri1s
So IL there were no economic onset,
paper ba cooking would have to be
reckoned either fad or luxury. 1t
is neither-it has come to stay.
Say you pay three to four doliars
month for gas--which is about a
fair average. IL the 9aper bag cook
ing cuts this z third, Il has almost
paid for itself at one fell sxoop.
Next comes che saving In quantity
of food cooked. Paper bag cooking il
one-fifth to one-fourth ahead there.
In pot cooking the scales show q
shrinkage treble that Of bag cooking
This is a saving well worth while, ,ss
far from telling the whole story.
Things ag-cooked nourish better be-
cause they are more readily disested.
Set thu extra nourishment at one
tenth Of the food cost, and the food
cost .or family ten dollars week.
Right there you have more the price
of bags, grease, clips, etc.-almost tnc
cost of the gas.
But even then the sum In domestic
economy is just fairl. begun. P"rer
bag cooking not only saves thus mega
lively by preventing loss and :nsur-
ing full edibilty, but positively-and
in many. many ways, as, for example,
in the food bought. Round steak g
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-:he
one possible alienation OF this In
creasing cost, without skimping Of ap-
petites, is in buying things less costly
and 81 cooking them as to make the
difference all in their favor.
Paper bag cooking will do 1t; it tas
done it for me. Let's recapitula:e.
Say one uses one hundred and fifty
bags in the month, and then allow s.v-
enty-five cents for clips, lard, butter,
and dripping This gives an initial
debit of two dollars beginning the Sc
count thus
DEBIT.
paper bags. butter, clips. one
month NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 81 40
CREDIT.
GdS saved. ...... ............ ol wv
Saved in wear and tear % per
cent? 80
Food saved t$l.00 week.. 500
Saved on meat (T5 cents week. So 90
Roast Ducks, Banana Stuffins
Wash your ducks well inside with
cold salt water-if they are wild ducks
let them lie in the salt water for fif-
teen minutes. Drain, wipe dry inside
and out, and season very lightly with
salt and paprika inside, sprnkling
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 snd
plenty of cold butter. Stuff the ducks
lightly, truss firmly. grease well all
over aud tie thin bacon over the
breasts. Put in well creased bag
fitting them close together. Add the
iuice 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, 1911 by Associated Literary