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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-03
soyer's General Directions for Paper
Bag Cooking EpitomIzed.

Soyer's General Directions for Paper
Bag Cooking Epitomlzed.
Select a bag that fits the food to be
cooked. Grease bag well on inside
except in case of vegetables or when
water is to be added. When food is
seasoned and otherwise prepared
place in bag, fold mouth of bag two
or three times and fasten with wire
paper clip. Also fold and clip corners
of bag to make it fit snugly. If bag
leaks in cooking do not transfer food
to new bag. Simply put the bag
within another.
Place bag in oven (gas, coal or oiD
on grid shelves or wire broilers, never
on solid shelves. Place seam side up
always. Do not move or open bags
when once placed for cooking. Put
roasts and entrees on lower shelf, fish
on the middle, pastry, etc, on the top,
where heat is most intense. Have hot
oven GOO degrees Fahr.) by lighting
the gas eight minutes before putting
in bag; then slack heat one-third to
one-half as soon as the bag corners
turn brown. Do not let bag touch
sides of oven or the gas flames. Ad-
here to time given in recipes, then
food will be well cooked.
Take up bag by slipping the lid of
A tin pot underneath it, To secure
gravy let out water, etc, stick a pin
lole in bottom of bag and drain over
dish.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-03

the bag gravy over it and serve what
remains of the pepper mixture in a
separate boat The meat roasted thus
without seasoning is tender and juicy
and ready to take flavors from the
gravy and the sauce.
Serve it with potatoes-both sorts
baked in their jackets, using very
| little water in the bags with them so
they shall be mealy. Too much wa
ter makes white potatoes waxy or
heavy and gives tor sweet potatoes d
pale flavor not desirable. The secret
of paper bag cooking, as of all other
cooking, is learning the difference be-
tween enough and either too much or
too little, Serve also with the meat
either turnips cooked in a bag, or car
rots or spinach.
A beet salad goes we'll with the
highly seasoned meat-much better
than cold slaw, though that will serve
at a pinch. Fresh cucumbers sliced
thin and seasoned only with salt and
vinegar, are best of all, but in mid
winter fresh cucumbers cost money
more money than most of us feel that
We can spare for a relish. A cheaper
relish, and also one more lasting, is
lprune pickle. Soak the prunes over
night, cook tender in a bag with as
| little water as possible, and pour
while hot into a jar holding vinegar,
boiled with a little sugar-say half
a cupful to the half pint of liquid-and
all the spices your palate approves.
Let stand three days before using.
The pickle will keep a long time if set
in cool place. The vinegar sugar
and spices can be put in the bag with
prunes in the beginning, but they will
be rather less tender than if cooked
alone.
Boiled batter pudding goes finely
with such savory meat and its vege-
table complement. To make it take
for each person who is to eat of it
fresh egg, a level tablespoonful of
flour and half cup of milk Beat
the egg yOlks very light, adding to
them alternately the flour, with a lit
tie baking powder sifted through it,
and the milk, taking care to mix very
smooth. Beat the egg whites very
stiff and melt a level spoonful of but
ter for each three eggs in the pudding.
Beat in the melted butter-it must not
be hot, only warm enough to run
then add raisins and citron in the pro-
portion of cupful for every two eggs.
The raisins must be seeded, the citron
finely shredded and both we'll Toured.
Beat them in well, but quickly; then
add the whites of eggs. Fold rather
than beat them in pour the pudding
into either a well-greased bag or
mould lined with well-greased paper
bag paper Set either mould or bag
inside another bigger bag, pour in
enough water to come half way up the
side, seal, and cook in a very hot oven
seven minutes, then in a moderate one |
Tor three-quarters of an hour. Be |
careful to leave room in the bag; the
pudding rises lot if it is made right.
Serve in the mould, cut it with a very
lot knife or spoon and serve with
ich' sweet wine or lemon sauce Be.
ore putting in water be sure that the
utter bag is watertight all up and
lown the seam. You can if you like
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-03
MEATS OF ALL SORTSINMPROVED BY
PAPER BAG COOKING
should be used in paper bag cooking.

should be used in paper bag cooking.
! Is savory meat-no matter what
sort-one of your gastronomic de-
lights? Cook it in the paper bag and
it will be a greater delight than ever.
Suppose you want an approach to
barbecued lamb-as near an approach
as the gas range or the coal one per-
mits. Get rack, not too big, fat and
tender, and have the rib-ends cut very
short and all the angles of the back
bone carefully removed. Wash it
quickly, wipe dry with a damp cloth,
rub all over with soft butter pop in
a paper bag, very well creased, and
cook in hot oven ten minutes, then
in moderate oven fifty minutes long
err, Take up and open the bag but
only a little way on top Then pour
carefully into it sauce made thus:
Boil soft in a little water half
dozen pods of cayenne pepper, mash
in the liquor, remove strings, add half
a cup of butter half cup of very
strong vinegar, half teaspoonful of
salt, dash of Worcester sauce and a
saltspoon of ground black pepper. |
Cook together for five minutes, stir
ing constantly. Dip by small spoon
uls over the meat in the bag, putting
IN about half Set the bag back in
he oven after cutting away a square
IN top. Turn the heat on full and
ook for five minutes longer. Take
Ia the meat ON a hot platter NOM.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-03
Tomato and Lamb Roast.

Drain the liquor from a can of to-
matoes, season it with onion juice,
salt, pepper and nough sugar to take
off the acidity. To every cupful OF
the liquor allow a scant tablespoonful
of flour and heaping teaspoonful of
butter or really good sweet dripping
from chicken, veal or roast beef. Cook
these together in a saucepan until
they bubble, pour the tomato upon
them and stir until well thickened.
Keep it hot while you toast slices of
bread about an inch thick, butter
lightly and soften with a little gravy
if you have it. If not, use a little Of
the tomato sauce. Into the remainder
of this stir cupful and a half or two
cupfuls of minced lamb, season to
taste, and when the mixture is smok-
ing hot pour on the toast-which
should also have been kept in a heat
ed dish.
| have spoken of using lamb for
this, but mutton, beef or veal is equal
ly good-and so is fresh pork.
Let me say word by the way reIa-
tive to the use Of dripping in place Of
butter. 1t cannot always be used in
delicate sauces, but for sauce with
as distinctive a flavor as tomato or
onion or anything of the sort, really
good dripping from beef or veal will
serve, while chicken fat may be EN-
ployed in almost any kind of thicken-
ing for meat or vegetable dishes and
Will improve their flavor. The reduc-
ton of the butter bill by the use of
dripping is well worth considering.
Pate of Rice and Liver.
For this buy a lambs liver. boil. |
drain and chop fine, Boil cupful of
rice until soft, work it into a paste
with couple of tablespoonfuls of but ,
ter, salt and pepper to taste. Have
ready two cupfuls of gravy or good
coup stock, thicken with Drowned -four
'ubbed up with a little dripping, sea
on with pepper and salt and onion
uice or kitchen bouquet; stir the
hoped liver into this, Line a pul-
inc dish with the rice paste, press
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-03

Large hat shapes Of velvet in all
colors require no trimming but the
--A ---3sh tha French
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-03

Lace gowns trimmed with narrow
bands of sealskin have chic all their
own. These tiny bands are used to.
outline the lace design.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-03
Spanish Eggs.

Into the blazer of your chatting dish
for the chatting dish Isl, of course, the
great standby of the amateur man
cockpit a gill of gravy or stock,
made from a bouillon cube or beef eX-
tract, if nothing else is at hand, a
teaspoonful of onion juice, a green
pepper, seeded and minced, dozen
stoned olives, cut in small pieces, a
half cupful of thick stewed tomatoes
and a tablespoonful of butter. Simmer
together, with constant stirring, for
ten minutes. Beat six eggs enough to
mix the whites and yolks, stir these
into the mixture in the blazer and
cook until they are thick. Should the
compound seem too stiff when you are
about to put in the eggs, thin it with
a little stock or hot water, in which
you have melted a tablespoonful o.
butter. AS the eggs thicken, season
with tablespoonful of salt and dash
of paprika and serve at once, on hot
plates.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-03
Chicken a la King.

My Dear Mrs. Herrick: Chicken a
la King" is made by heating two full
tablespoonfuls of butter until it bub-
bles, then adding to it one chopped
green pepper, the seeds having been
removed. Let cook slowly for three
minutes, add a tablespoonful of flour
salt and paprika to taste and enough
rich milk to make a smooth, thick
sauce. When the sauce is cooked, put
in the contents of a can of boned
chicken or two cups of cold roast or
stewed chicken and let it heat through.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-03
BY Christine rerhune HerrIek.


The struggle of most of us house
keepers is to cut down the meat bills.
Yet although we buy cheap cuts as
often as our families will stand it and
eXpend the best skill we have at
command in cooking such cuts in alp.
petizing ways, the meat bills keep
high.
How many of you know the many
combinations in which a little meat
may be made to go a long way?
have no doubt all of you have your
fashions of preparing meat combina-
tons, but the following are a few
which have proved acceptable in my
household and may be of value to
you, not only as a step to economy,
but also as a means or providing va
viety in the bill of fare.
l hope these may prove an encour-
agement to you to send me some of
your own ways of making meat a
minor item in the main dish of your
meals and yet keeping this up to
savory standard.
Meat and Macaroni
Boil a half pound of macaroni or
spaghetti until tender, blanch by pour
ing cold water over it, after draining
it from the pot, cut it into short
pieces. Thicker two cups of well sea
soned gravy, or if you have not this,
two cupfuls of tomato sauce, using
tablespoonful of flour rubbed smooth
with the same amount of butter. Chop
fine a cupful of any cold meat you
have, salt and pepper to taste and stir
it into the thickened gravy or sauce,
with the macaroni. Do all this over
the fire, turn into buttered pudding
dish, sprinkle crumbs over the top, dot
with bits of butter, bake covered TWEEN
ty minutes, uncover and brown. The
compound is made even better if graf
ed cheese is strewed over the top be-
fore baking or, if dish of grated
cheese is passed with it to be
sprinkled on each portion.
Veal or chicken is especially good
in this dish, but failing these, mutton
or beef may be used.
Meat and Potato Pie.
Cut cold roast or boiled beef iuto
neat cubes. Brown a sliced onion in
tablespoonful of dripping, toss the
meat about in this until it is hot
through, pour in a cupful of boiling
water-pouring it around the meat,
not upon it-and let all simmer to-
gether for ten minutes. Turn into a
creased bake dish. Beat an egg whip
ped light into two cupfuls of mashed
potato, which should have been soft
ened with butter while hot, salt and
pepper to taste and cover the top of
the meat with this. Make this top
crust at least an inch and a half to
two inches thick, put the dish in the
oven, covered, cook for fifteen min
utes, uncover and brown.
This dish is even more accepts BILE
if you have gravy to pass with it. The
savory qualities of the meat and gravy
help out with the potato and make
the dish favorite with men and chill
dren. A good gravy goes a long way
to winning good will to any made-over
dish.
Tomato and Lamb Roast.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-03

This recipe commends itself to me!
My readers will see how it differs
from the earlier one given on this
page. | know chicken a la King made
by Mrs. E. HIS recipe would be good
and | mean to try it. | may add, by
the way, that the quantity of milk re-
quired for this proportion of butter
and -four will be half pint and that
after it is added the sauce must be
stirred constantly until it is rich and
smooth.
/ would like more terse, practical
recipes like this.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-03
BY CHRISTINE TERHUNE HERRlcK

BY CHRISTINE TERHUNE HERRlCK
Nearly every man is sure he could
cook if he tried. Most men cherish
the secret conviction that they could
do it better than women, if they once
gave their mind to the business-and
am not prepared to say they may not
be right!
Among my men friends | am happy
to number several who are excellent
cooks, and who delight to show their
Skill at late suppers and impromptu
luncheons in their bachelor apart.
mentS At such banquets as these
have often figured as chaperon and
always I wonder that so few men cul.
tivate the accomplishment of cooking.
1t adds greatly to their charm as hus-
bands, present or prospective, and is
a gift of incalculable value in camp
ing, picnics and similar conditions
am not touching today on such sim
pie cookery as bacon, eggs, coffee,
even fapjacks and quick biscuits. A
knowledge of these and like dishes is
indispensable for cooking in camp and
outdoors, but the dishes of which l
give the recipes below are more suited
for suppers after card parties or studio
festivities, or for Sunday night gather
ings, when the cook is out and the
duty of compromising a savory meal
falls upon a member of the family.
If a man once learns how to prepare
the following and other dainties he
will be a pride to himself and a joy
to his friends.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-03
Scotch Woodcock.

scotch WoooCoCk.
Cook together a tablespoonful OF
-four and two tablespoonful of butter
until they bubble, stirring all the time,
and blending with them at the same
time a heaping teaspoonful of anchovy
paste. Pour on them a cupful of milk
and continue to stir until you have a
thick smooth sauce. Have ready six
hard boiled egg1 sliced once length
wise and four times across, put them
into the sauce, add pinch of red pep
per or of paprika and serve as soon
as the eggs are hot through.
Welsh Rareblt,
Melt a tablespoonful of butter in
the double boiler of a chatting dish
that is in the inner vessel, while the
outer one contains boiling water. See
that this is actually boiling before
you begin your cookery. To the but
ter add a gill of ale or beer, and when
these are smoking hot put in half
pound of sbft dairy cheese, grated.
When this is melted and stringy, stir
in teaspoonful of celery salt, la
blespoOnful of dry mustard and
pinch of cayenne pepper. Have the
whites and yOlks of two eggs separ-
ated and both beaten very light, then
mixed Dip out some of the hot cheese
mixture and stir it into the eggs; turn
all back into the chatting dish. AS soon
as the rarebit has reached the hot
creamy stage which should be in
soning of a teaspoonful each Of lemon
juice and of Worcestershire sauce.
Serve on toast. This rarebit will re-
main light and good as long as there.
is a bit of it left. 1t does not become
stringy in cooking as do Welsh rare
bits made without eggs.
Maryland Planned Oysters.
Melt two tablespoonfuls Of butter in
the blazer of the chatting dish, lay I'M
twenty or twenty-five good sized oys-
tiers and cook until these plump and
the edges curl. Add two tablespoon
fula Of sherry, sprinkle with pepper
and salt and serve on toast.
There are few better ways of cook
ink oysters. If you object to the use
Of wine, the dish is good even with
out it,
Dreamed Oysters.
Cook together a tablespoonful each
Of butter and -four until blended and
add half a pint of cream, or
t you have not this, use milk and
Iouble the quantity of butter, When
he sauce is smooth and boiling put
d your oysters-you can cook twenty
r thirty in this amount of sauce
nd let them cook about four minutes
r until they are plump. Season with
Tablespoonful of sal, saltspoon-
Il of white pepper ana a tiny pinch of
ace or grated nutmeg. Serve on c
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-17
The Star-Pointed Monument.

Twice a year. in fall and spring. the
Washington Monument adds to the at
fractions of the capital by presenting a
most beautiful phenomenon. The alumni
MUM tip. untarnished by years of expo
sure To the weather. catches the rays of
the sun at little before 10 o'clock in
the morning in such way to reflect
them i'm dazzling spot of light v:si-
BILE from the heart of the business section
OF the city. For ten or fifteen minutes
of several days. and those who are so
fortunate as to note it are rewarded for
their good chance by a vision that is well
nigh thrilling. The appearance of this
great solid shaft of stone capped as by a
star is well worth long and patient
watching. Ii is, of course. certain that
there is a reflection of this sort from the
aluminium tip practically continuously
throughout the cay from sunrise to sun
set, when the sky is clear, but the angle
of reflection IS such as to bring it into
range in the downtown streets only for
few DAYS i'm October and April Astrono-
mers could doubtless chart the angles
SO as To designate precisely the
points from which this flash can
be seen throughout the hours of sun
shine. but probably most of the time
these points are impracticable. Certainly
those who are in the vicinity of The Star
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-17
The War in the Near East.

Dee larins war against Greece on the
one side and Bulgaria and Servia on the
other. TuI.-ey takes the field in circum-
stances to lead possibly to general
European conflict. The abstention of
f;ouman.a from the Balkan alliance is
POSSIBLY a token of a close understanding
etween that government and Turkey
and it mas be of purpose on the part OF
certain powers to take hand. Russia and
tustria are those most directly interested
nd most likely to be involved in the
first stage of any extension of the wal
phere- Ii by good fortune the war
..oul1 he confined to The Balkans there
- no certainty a. to the outcome. The
comb forces of the allies are slightly
creater than the available European
forces Of the Turks. but the latter have
reserves in Asia that may be employed "A,
a critical moment 10 turn the scale. Fur
;hormore. Turkey has the advantage OF
unity OF direction as against an enemy
comp. Sing four distinct nations with nc
single one Of them sufficiently large tC
dominate the combination and provide tn,
one leader essential TO success
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-17
The Diaz Movement.

The Mexican situation undoubtedly
| looks more serious with the advent of
Felix Diaz nephew of the former presi-
dent as rebel leader. The younger
Diaz is popular with the people and APP
pears to possess some of the magnetic
quality and military ability of his dis
tnguished uncle. He has just captured
the city of Vera Cruz. by which he in
flicts a severe blow upon the government.
for 1t is virtually the financial gateway of
the republic. the nearest Atlantic seaport
to the capital and a strategic position OF
vital Importance. Most sinister is the
fact that the pOpulace of Vera Cruz well
coined Diaz with tokens of genuine rejoic-
ing. There is evidently something in the
name that appeals to the Mexican masses.
to whom Don Porfirio' stin remains
potent figure. despite his exile.
Heretofore American attention has been
directed to the Mexican troubles along
the northern boundary, where. of course,
they have been most conspicuously in evil
dence. But this warfare has degenerated
into mere guerrilla agitation under the
rather vague leadership of OroZco.
Meanwhile movement of almost equal
seriousness has been in progress in the
southern portion of the republic under
Zapata. who is apparently a man of
rather more ability than OrOzcO. An
understanding between Diaz and Zapata
was reported short time ago. and now.
coincidental with the formers capture of
Vera Cruz. comes word that Zapata is
to join him in a march upon Mexico City.
The United States cannot lessen it's
keenness of observation, even if the scene
of chief insurrectionary activity Is re-
moved from the northern boundary to the
vicinity of the capital, which lies nearly
800 miles south of the line. American in
terests are scattered throughout Mexico
and in the turmoil of revolution they are
certain to be more or less affected
Whether the disturbance becomes suffi-
GENTLY grave to warrant intervention. is
beyond present calculation, but it is at
all events a relief to find the scene of the
insurrection shifted from the zone of the
Rio Grande, where there is constant dan
ger of collisions leading to active partic-
ipatiOn by the United States. If Felix
Diaz succeeds in replacing Madero as
president of Mexico, this government will
undoubtedly he disposed to wish him a
secure administration of the republic, and
at least sufficiently long service to re-
store order and place the affairs of Mex
leo on d prosperous basis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-17
An Epic Base Ball Series.

IL was fitting that the greatest worlds
championship series ever played should
have been decided not only by sin
gle game. but by single play I'm an
extra innirg. Yesterdays climax of the
f:n2 base ball season was epic i'm its
quality. lacking only the presence of a
great crowd TO keep il in unison with the
intcrs.ty Of the strife that for over a
week Pas, has kept two cities in a state
Of nervous exhaustion ard fl: nished en-
tertau-T ent for millions of people out
side Of the favored zone ArtisticaIly il
was unfortunate that the game should
ave heen won by Boston chiefly through
on error. Ii would have been. of course,
more dramatic aud possibly more graft
fyins 10 the performers if in that fateful
tenth inning Yesterday the runs neces-
sary to tie and win could have been the
result OF clean hitting or skillful base
running. But therein lies one of the
caases of the games remarkable fascina-
ton Even the strongest defense may
weaken at any moment, and when Snod-
grass muffed Engle's fly there was still a
Chance for New York to hold the narrow
lead so hardly won a moment before.
Then Snodgrass caught fly i'm proper
style and put one man out. Next after
q nau had walked" dangerous hitter
topped up little foul that any one OF
three men could have got. but IL fell safe
Through their incer.ltude. and thus en-
Outraged the batsman immediately crash
ed out hit that scored the tying run
ard sent a man TO third. where. with only
enc out, he was able to score on long
fy that should have retired the side had
il not been for the nisplays that
rad just preceded it. Such Is base ball,