Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-12
ITS MANY ECONOMIES.

A dollars worth of paper bags will
be ample tn cook for any average
family throughout month. Add
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 pound of butter,
half pound of drippings-and the
total ! 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 in to the kingdom of THRIFT.
So If there were no economic onset,
paper ba cooking would have to be
reckoned either fad or a luxury. 1t
is neither-it has come to stay.
Say you pay three to four dollars
a month for gas-which Is about
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-fifth to one-fourth ahead there.
In pot cooking the scales show a
shrinkage treble that of bag cooking.
This is saving well worth while. ret
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 tno
cost of the gas.
But even then the sum in domestic
economy is just fairl. begun. Pcrer
bag cooking not only saves thus mega
lively by preventing loss and !nsur-
ing full edibility. but positively-and
in many. many ways. as, for example,
' in the food bought. Round steak q
| more nourlshing than any other-but
| the fact has been held to be Offset by
| the extra dentists bill the eating of II
necessitated Paper bag cooking makes
1t 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-the
one possible alleviation of this in
creasing cost, without skimping OF ap
petites. is in buying things less costly
and s~ cooking them as to make the
difference all in their favor.
Paper bag cooking will do 1t: It has
done 1t for me. Let's recapitulate
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 initia
debit Of Two dollars beginning the &C
count thus:
DEBIT.
Paper bags, butter, clips, one
month SZ- "
CREDIT.
Gas saved. ii -o
Saved in wear and tear Is per
| cent -o
Food saved ($1.0O a week. ).... 81 o.
Saved on meat Us cents week. SO .0
Roast Ducks, Banana Stuffing
Wash your ducks well inside witt
cold salt water-if they are wild duck
let them lie in the salt water for III
teen minutes. Drain, wipe dry insid,
and out, and season very lightly will
salt and paprika inside, sprinklini
black pepper on the outside. Set oil
ice while you make stufilng OF ba
nanas cut in small cubes. mixed will
their own bulk of toasted breat
crumbs and seasoned with salt, blacl
pepper. a little chopped celery ant
plenty of cold butter. Stuff the duck
lightly. truss firmly, grease well al
over and tie thin bacon over th'
breasts Put in a well creased bag
fitting them close together. Add ths
Juice OF a lemon, wineglass of ethel
claret or sherry, seal bag and cook ir
a hot oven ten minutes, then slacl
heat. and finish-it ought to require
about forty minutes more.
| Copyright, 1911. by Associated Literary
| Press.)