Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-04-17
ITS MANY ECONOMIES.

A dollars worth of paper bags viii
be ample to cook for any average
family throughout a month. Add q
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 a pound of butter,
half a pound Of drippings- the
total t., 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
eve- 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 baS 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 lie 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
one-tifth to- one-fourth ahead there.
In pot cooking the scales show a
shrinkage treble that Of bag cooking.
This is saving well worth while, yet
far from telling the whole story.
Things bag-cooked nourish better be-
cause they are more readily digested.
Set thu extra nourishment at one
tenth of the food cost, and the food
cost Tor 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 insnr-
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
there is no bone to be thrown
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 APP
petites, is in buying things less costly
and So cooking them as to make the
difference all in their favor.
Paper bag cooking will do it; it has
done it for me. Let's 3recapitulate.
Say one uses one hundred and fifty
bags in the month, and then allow sew
enty-five cents for clips, lard, butter,
and dripping. This gives an initial
debit OF two dollars beginning the ac-
count thus: ~,
DEBIT. Tx.
Paper bags, butter, clips, one -
/, month .................. $500
CREDIT.
Gas saved. II 10
Saved In wear and tear e per
cent? 49,. .bU
Food saved ($1.00 a week.. 49,. $500
Saved on meat rs cents weekly $500
Roast Ducks, Banana stuffins.
Wash your ducks well inside with
cold salt water-n they are wild ducks
lot them lie In the salt water for If
;een minutes. Drain. wipe dry inside
md out, and season very lightly with
'alt and paprika inside, sprinkling
black pepper on the outside. Set on
&c while you make stufhng Of ba-
,anas cut in small cubes. mixed with
heir own bulk of toasted bread
crumbs and seasoned with salt, black
pepper, q little chopped celery and
,lenty Of cold butter. STUFF the ducks
lightly, truss firmly, grease we'll all
,ver and tie thin bacon over the
breasts. Put in we'll creased bag,
ltting them close together. Add the
uice Of a lemon, a wineglass Of either
:laret or sherry, seal bag and cook In
i hot oven ten minutes, then slack
leat, and finish-it ought to require
bout forty minutes more.
Copyright. 1911, by Associated Literary
Press.)