Show my paper bag cooking experiments B martha mcculloch W III illiams ams when soyer a paper bag method of cooking was first brought to my at by friends who rightly or wrongly seem to have a high opinion ot of my abilities as a cook I 1 admit that I 1 was skeptical of its practice tica ability indeed I 1 was more than that I 1 was rather firm in my belief that it could not prove out but I 1 was in deuced to put the system to a trial and lo 10 and behold the very first trial made me an enthusiastic follow er of M soyer since then I 1 have been doing all my cooking by the soyer method and each succeeding day more than ever convinces me that any woman simply by following soyer soyers s general directions and using that good common sense and care which are essential to all good cook ing can master the soyer paper bag method of cooking in a very short time and will find it a great boon both to herself and to all the mem bers of her household following M soyer soyers s general diorec eions tor for paper bag cookery I 1 speed lly ily learned that there are sundry corn mand ments to be observed while pur suing his method of cooking the first and greatest of these Is to get the right bag which Is made specially for cooking Is odorless even when crumbly crisp sanitary and to be had in sizes big enough to hold a thanksgiving tur key y or tiny enough tor for a single chop next nearly as important Is to grease the bag inside liberally using butter lard oil drippings or a very fat at rind of bacon further proportion your bag size to what it Is destined to hold the closer the fit of bag and contents the better and the more even and compact the lay of the food the less trouble in handling use a tooted footed wire broiler or very open grid shelf in the oven all pa per bag cooking Is done in the oven it if a gas oven it must be lighted e to ten minutes before putting in the food and kept at blazing heat until the bag corners scorch lightly then slacken the heat a third or even hall throughout the rest of the time ol 01 cooking be sure to lay the bags in t the he oven with the seam uppermost especially if water has been put inside seams will steam open now and then it if the th opening is downward there will be a leakage and much bother finally it Is important to kemem her ber that all manipulation seasoning sea sonin and flavoring of food must be at tended to before it is put in bags there can be no stirring or tossing in the course of paper bag cooking nor must a bag be opened at an time during cooking such action it to absolutely unnecessary if directions I 1 are faithfully followed I 1 copyright 1911 by the associated literary pres hi |