The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-01-24
PAPER BAG
COOKING
Great System Perfected by NJ.
Soyer, Famous London Chef.
ITS MANY
Nv Martha mocullooh Williams.

A dollars worth OF paper bags will
be ample to cook for any average
family throughout a month Add a
box Of clips NJ ten cents they will he
good for another month, and still an.
other In careful h~auds-aud the out
lay Is still uncomfortable, Add still
further tifty cents for greasing "a
pound of lard, half a pound OF butter,
half II pound OF dripplngs-and the
total Is stu more than moderate. Not
w~ithstAnding, It II more than plenty
of us would care to spend monthly
merely Ia the interest uf flavor or
sven of ease. Plenty more Of us like
to take duties laboriously, feeling that
SO II there were 40 economic offset,
paper baS cooking would have 10 b."
roCkOued either a fad or q luxury. II
Is ncither-it has ZONE to stay
Say you pay three 20 four dollars
a month for gas-whi,u is about q
fair average. II tho paper bag cook.
ing cuts this a third. II has almost
paid Tor itself At one fell swoop
Next comes the saving in quantity
OF food cooked Paper bRg cooking Is
one-flth 10 ]one.fouIrh ahead thoro
In pot cooking the scales show a
shrinkara treble that Of bag cooking
This Is Il saving we'll worth while, yet
far from telling the whole STORY.
Things ~hag.cooked uou" h better 10.
cause they are more readily digost"d.
Set tins cNiru npurishmout 4.
.WNh - s1. F.-A -L.t ..N Hl. fL-.l
cost for n family ton dollars q week.
Right there you have more the pric"
81 bags, grease, clips, etc.-almost tn"
cost of the gas.
But even then the sum IN domestic
economy is just fairi! begun PAPER
bag cooking not only saves thus mega.
lively by preventing loss ard ius.r.
ing full edibility but positively and
IN many, many ways, as, for example,
In the food bought. Round steak Is
more nourishing than any other bat
the fact has been held 70 be- Offset by
the extra dentist bin IN" eating 81 II
necessiiated. Paper bag cooking makes
II as tender as po]rterhUuse itself
moreover. there IS no bone TO be thrown
hNhN -llDlhlhh 'AA 'lfhl H'ftls tNl'N
the favorable difference In price runs
from eight to ten cents the pound.
Living is dcaror IN every Way-the
one possible alienation OF this in.
creasiug cost. without %skimpiug Of APP
petit-s, Is In buying things less costly
aud SO cooking them as to make the
difference all in their favor,
n.r.,. t,.uy Goblin ufn ,Nn o. {t hoe
done IL for me. Let's recauiulate.
Say one uses one hundred aud fifty
bags in the month, ana then allow sew.
enty-iive cents for clips. lard. butter,
and dripping. This gives an initial
debit OF TWO dollars beginning the &C
count thus:
DEBIT
Paper bags, butter, clips, n
month MISREPRESENTATION, " 90
CREDIT.
Gas saved. 81 ~
Saved IN wear and tear G. per
cent? 80
Food saved S1.00 a weckD ..., 81 90
Saved on meat as cents week. SO 90
Roast Ducks, Banana Stufflns.
Wash your ducks well inside with
cold salt wa,cr-ir hey are wild ducks
let them La IN the salt water for Af-
teen minutes. Drain. wipe dry inside
and out, and season very lightly with
salt and paprika inside, s%pr,nkling
black pepper on tho outside. Set on
ice while you make a stuting ~ bs-
nanas cut IA small cubes mixed With
their own bulk o' toasted bread
crumbs aud seasoned with salt, black
pepper. 4 mn" chopped celery aud
plenty 81 cold butter. STUFF tu" ducks
lightly. russ firmly, grease we'll all
over and rie thin bacon over the
breasts. Put in a we'll creased bag,
fitting them close together. Add ,ns
Juice Of a lemon. II uluoginss OF either
claror or sherry. seal 5ag and cook In
"a hot oven ten minutes, then slack
heat, and hnish-it ought 20 require
about forty minutes more
Copyright. 1911, Dos Associated Literary