The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-03-13
PAPER BAG
COOKING
Great System Perfected by M.
Soyer, Famous London Chef.
A PAPER BAG LUNCHEON.
BY Martha MccuIIoch williams.

Better have bags for each tableful,
limiting the tables to playing size.
The two menus here given are ad-
Unstable either to luncheon, afternoon
collations or late suppers. Claret
punch, Sauterne cup, or tea-lemonade
should be served with each. winding
up with black coffee or chocolate
| made with a little brandy and very
| lightly sweetened. Sailed nuts, olives
and radishes are also served, either
| together or separate. at the discretion
Of the hostess.
Diamonds of Chicken on Toast
Green Peas Sliced Potatoes
Hot Biscuit
Fruit Endive Salad Sherry Dressing
Asparagus with Cheese
Cheese Cakes
Sliced Marble or Spice Cake
Nuts Raisins Crystallized Fruit
Diamonds of chicken are on the sur
face extravagant, but less so than
they seem, for the rest OF the chicken
need not go to waste. The diamonds
are the breast cut in half lengthwise,
boned, trimmed, and fattened, but
, not mashed. They are very well but
| tered, lightly seasoned with salt and
pepper, have a sliced mushroom laid
| on top, and are wrapped in thin sliced
bacon, then cooked in a we'll buttered
bag about twenty minutes. While
they cook get read:' thin diamonds of
toast. Cut it from stale bread and
make as crisp as possible. Butter lib
| orally, and keep very hot without
scorching. Lay a chicken diamond
on each piece of toast and keep all
hot while you add to the gravy in the
bag, which must be poured into
celery, a little lemon Juice, lump
of butter rolled very lightly in -four,
and the lightest sprinkle OF powdered
sweet herbs. Cook over lot water till
well mixed, then add a spoonful or so
of cream, stir it well through, and
finish with a spoonful or SO of sherry.
Do not cook after the wine is in.
Pour the sauce equally over the dia-
monds and send to table very hot.
Green peas and sliced potatoes have
been heretofore ascribed. Make your
biscuit very tiny, also very short and
light. For the salad cut up French
endive in inch lengths, along with
peeled high favored apples and heart
celery. Mix all well together, put
heaping spoonfuls upon crisp lettuce
leaves and garnish with celery tips
and stringe of pimento. Pour over a
dressing made from three tablespoon
fuls best oil, one tablespoonful lemon
juice, one tablespoonful sherry, half
teaspoonful of sugar, pinch Of
salt, red and black pepper to taste
and a few drops of tobasco or chilli
vinegar. Mix the dry ingredients
well, add the lemon Juice. beat
smooth, then put in the tobasco. Then
add alternately the oil and sherry,
beating in each portion well before
add another.
What follows sounds simple, yet
may turn out more troublesome:
Savory Mouthfuls Sweet Potato
Straws Celery Hearts
Mushrooms Stewed in Cream
Apple Brown Bread Sandwiches
Sliced Cake in Variety
Fruit Nuts Bon-Bons
For the savory mouthfuls first make
good puff paste, roll 1t very thin,
then cut neatly into small squares
say three inches across. Put upon the
squares several sorts Of filling
cooked chicken minced with olives
and seasoned with melted butter and
lemon juice, or cream and sherry;
ham shaved as thin as possible, then
cut across and mixed with finely
minced cucumber pickle; salmon
freed of skin and bone, drained, high
ly seasoned with lemon juice, or tar
ragon, salt and pepper, or lean roast
mutton, mince and mixed with cur
rant jelly, melted in a little claret or
vinegar. Anything tasty and easily
handled will suffice. Use only a bit
of filling, fold over the paste. pinch
tight and bake, keeping the triangle
as true as possible. Serve either hot
or cold.
Sweet potato straws are better hot.
Cut potatoes in slices lengthwise.
peel. then cut the slices into straws-
they should be less than a quarter
inch each way. Dip in melted butter
or bacon fat and cook inside a greas-
ed bag ten to fifteen minutes. Take
up. let cool partially. lay on clean pa
per to absorb any grease, then
sprinkle lightly with fine salt, and set
again in hot but fireless oven.
Peel the mushrooms and cut away
the stalks. but do not wash unless
they show dirt. Put them In a thickly
buttered bag with half a gill OF cream
to the pound. lump of butter rolled
In -four and very little cold water.
say half spoonful Seal. put In hot
oven for five minutes, slack heat, and
cook fifteen minutes longer. Take up
In a hot deep dish. add a wineglass
of sherry. stirring 1t in lightly, then
dust with pepper and serve very hot. |
To make the sandwiches. mince fine
or scrape highly favored apples. mix
with little sweet French dressing.
made with lemon Juice instead of |