The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1912-11-29
PAPER BAG
COOKING
Great System Perfected by N.
Soyer, Famous London Chef.
FOR A cHILDREN's PARTY.
BY Martha Mocullooh Williams.

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Suppose you try giving the children
a paper-bAg cooked party. ON suoh an
occasion. the paper bag comes gaily
into It's kingdom. Not the used bag.
but n holding something cooked in
another bag. or else roguishly am.
bushing a gift.
For such ambushing. splotch bags
literally with color or else decorate
them with gilt and silver stars. pasted
on the sides, and tie their neeks with
gay ribbon, putting inside n rufle 81
fringed crepe paper matching the rib
%bon-Color.
Edibles, OF course. must be bagged
very shortly before being distributed.
Iced tartlets, small pretty fancy cakes,
nuts, ~raisins, bits OF c~rystallized fruit,
Nil make admirable filings.
What Ahanner OF sweets. fruits. can
dies, nuts, etc, appear must depend,
Of course, upon the hostess. She will
not err II the candies are largely
homemade and pRAtifully reinforced
with fresh fruit and good cake. Nuts
are essential. but should not be eaten
TOO literally. The best preventive OF
such excess Is a satisfying menu. Here
Is one that should appeal to hungry
young creatures. yet do them no sort
OF harm.
Hot Chocolate or Cocoa with Whipped
Cream
Hot Chicken Biscuit
Hot Sweet Potato Biscuit
Homemade Candy Sailed Peanuts
Minca T~urnovers
Pound Cake Icecream Sandwiches
Fruit and Nuts
Make chocolate as you like; but
have plenty OF hot milk, also boiling
water, az hand. so II can be varied to
suit individual tastes.
For the chicken biscuit begin BY
roasting a line fat chicken. duly
washed and trussed, creased ali over
and b"acon-coyered on the breast. DO
not stun Il, but put inside half a dozen
stalks OF celery and a peeled and quar-.
tered apple. Lay "A few more stalks
OF celery in the bag. which needs a
small lump or butter In addition to
thick greasing. seal. and cook done.
taking care the bag does not break.
Remove carefully from the bag. and
while still hot. mince the meat as fine
as YOU can. minClng also the apple and
celery. which will be cooked very soft.
Taste. II the light seasoning which
the chicken had is insufficient, add
more salt and a bare busting OF pep
per. red and black. Pour upon the
minced mass the gravy from the bag.
add a very little more butter and a
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In a fresh well-greased bag anu heat
for five minutes. Take up and put by
~spocnfuls. rather scant ones. between
hot biscuit. which have been rolled
thin and baked double, after brushing
over the lower one with melted butter.
Keep hot inside a bag In the not stove
where the fame Is out, until needed.
For sweet potato biscuit. boil soft
a quart ~ sound potatoes aud peel and
mash fine while hot, taking ont all
humps and strings. Mix with It's "
bulk OF -four sifted with a teaspoon.
ful OF baking powder. shorten we'll
with butter, wet up rather stin with
sweet milk, roll out, cut in small
rounds and bake in a creased bag with
a tiny hole Ia the upper side. Fifteen
minutes ought TO be long enough.
MinCe t]urnOveTs. which explain
themselves. must be very small Make
the original round Of paste about four
inches across. Put only a te]aspoonful
or mircemeat upon II, fold H. over very
neatly and pinch the edges we'll to-
gether. FlAtten and cook inside a but.
tered bag.
For the icecream sandwiches. cur
very thin slices from a thick loaf OF
pound cake, frost the slices upon one
side and lay them together, two and
two, naked sides touching Al serving
time. cut II very thin slice OF icecream,
lay y deity between two OF tho
frosted cake slices, and pass on 20 be
eaten at once.
This second menu may please some
households better. IL ia suited 20 after.
noon serving, rather than evening.
Peanut Brown Bread Sandwiches
Cider Cup or T~ea-I.emouade
Oyster Patties or Minced Chicken
Turnovers
Bread and Butter Sandwiches
Clear Broth, Small Cups
Sliced Oranges with Frosted Individual
Sponge Cakes
Fruit Nuts Candy
Directions have been given for cider
cup and ~tea-lemonade. Roast and
grind the peanuts, season lightly with
salt and mix with either melted butter
or a very mild French dressing to a
rather stir paste. Spread between
very thin slices OF buttered brown
bread and keep moist until wanted.
For oyster patties, bake shells Of
pun paste inside paper bags. cool. aud
MI with oysters prepared as for oyster
sandwiches. Prepare chicken as for
the chicken biscuit, but bake il in tiny
t%urnovers. Boil the bones OF Il with
a little fresh celery and a sliced to.
mato to make the broth.
Cut the oranges carefully around,
remove the peel In two sections and
notch the edrea of zach thus makfng