Paper-bag Cookery

of being lost in the baking dish or the boiling water, as would be the case if the bag were dispensed with.= =(14) No scrubbing out of a greasy oven with dripping clinging to the sides; no washing out of the dripping pan or baking dish. A spotlessly clean oven is left, and when the bags have been burned up and the dishes washed, the cook's labours in connection with the finished meal are over.= =(15) Even such articles which for some reason or other must necessarily be put into dishes, are immensely improved in flavour by being afterwards placed in a paper bag, and are also more equally cooked well as saved from all risk of burning.= _A List of Prices of Papakuk Bags will be found on page 3 of the Cover._ CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTION 5 I. SHOWING THE ENORMOUS ADVANTAGES OF COOKING IN PAPER BAGS OVER THE PRESENT METHOD 9 II. HOW TO COOK FISH 21 III. HOW TO COOK MEAT 32 IV. HOW TO COOK VEGETABLES 44 V. PUDDINGS AND SWEETS 56 VI. MISCELLANEOUS RECIPES 68 INDEX 78 PAPER-BAG COOKERY CHAPTER I. SHOWING THE ENORMOUS ADVANTAGES OF COOKING IN PAPER-BAGS OVER THE PRESENT METHOD. When Primitive Man first ventured on the daring experiment of applying heat to his newly-slain prey, he would most naturally adopt the obvious plan of suspending it on three sticks over a fire. The result, though no doubt to a certain extent tasty, would be smoked, charred on one side, raw on the other, and this, coupled with the frequency of burned fingers gained while rescuing the meat from the fire into which it fell when the sticks burned through, caused Primitive Man--or, more probably, Primitive Woman--to evolve the method of cooking known to us to-day as Paper-bag Cookery. Paper not having been discovered, the prehistoric cook could not use the bags now placed at our disposal, but a very fair substitute was always ready to hand in the shape of green leaves, in which the meat was carefully wrapped. A hole was dug in the ground, and partly filled with