The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1912-03-22
BAG COOKERY
INsUREs ECONOMY or FUEL.
sy Martha meculloob wu,.u.

"aEAVs WSNhllop WlIllAfnn.
Paper bag cooking economies
fusl-the fact Ia demonstrable. be-
yond a doubt. Particularly II the
fuel 10 gss. The figures to follow are
given for gas, but are easy Of trans
lAtion into coal heat or even oil.
The oven OF a gas range turned on
full, burns twenty feet Of gas an
hour for each fame.bar. Commonly
tAere are two bsrs-thus, the hourly
consumption AZ full head Ia forty feet.
The giant burner on top likewise,
At full head, twenty feet an
hour, the small burners, each ten
feet. Thus q stove In full commits
slen for pot and pan cooking consumes
ninety feet an hour.
Now, for paper bag cooking the
oven must be lighted and turned on
full for eight minutes before any.
thinS goes into 1t: II must also burn
full strength for seven minutes longer.
Thus, II nsum ten feet OF gas at
the outset. Turning out one burner To
reduce the heat One.hAlf At the end
OF the seven minute period reduces
consumption TO hfteen feet for the
rest OF the hour, making a total of
twenty-five feet against forty. Hut
roasting does not demand that q bur-
nsr goes f~ull-turning 1t down might
save hve feet In the hour. Thus the
net h~our.saVinE OF gas on the oven
account 10 ten feet.
But there are othe' accounts. by
help OF paper bags. you can not mere.
ly roast In the oven. but. cook at the
same time a couple Of vegetables and
bake q pie or pudding. With q small
roast you may eve cook three veg.
stablss. thereby leaving unlighted
three upper jets. which would mean
a saving OF thirty feet Vt gas an hour.
Cooking thus solely In the oven
means a saving Of nifty feet Of gas
N hour.
Nor IL this even all the story. Mys-
tsriOusly, things cook more quickly
In bags than u Of them. The sav-
ing In time Ii one-nfth TO one-siKth.
Putting this at the lowest. and esti-
mating the whole range consumption
OF gas At ninety ieet. there Is a saw
ing OF fifteen feet. Add them to the
atty feet already In credit. and the
sum 10 catering. indeed, to the paper
BEG.
A Little story Of Pie Baking.
had baked q pie a Ia Soysr and
found II good. Notwithstanding. | re-
solved to show myself exactly the
worth 81 the bsgcooking.
made up pun paste enough for
three pies. rolled out tho crusts and
nlled a pan, using cooked fresh
peaches for a filling. ! put II on TO
cook. In It's naked majesty, noting the
time accurately. II took ten min.
utss to roll crusts. MI. and put In a
creased bag the second pie. The
oven war 30 hot by that time that |
Stacked the heat q minute after put
ting In pie number two. After twenty
mi~nutes-thirty minutes from putting
In the first pie looked In the oven.
The naked pie was cooking ~creditably
enough. yet was pale.faced. and the
crust still dentabls TO the touch. Fur
Their, there were bubbles OF syrup
along sundry spaces Of the edge.
turned on a little more heat and
left the two pies to cook fifteen min
utes longer. The naked enc was then
= pale. delicate brown III top, with
rather a hard undercrust. The bag
was brown all oyer and so crisp the
corners crumbled at the touch. But
from II anne a pie beautiful TO be.
hold--light. not pale brown, crisp and
faky AZ to crust. ready 10 leave the
pan at the first tilt. for a plate.
Copyright. 1911, by the Associated
Literary Press.)