PAPER-BAG COOKERY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 208, 19 August 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)

PAPER-BAG COOKERY

THE LATEST METHOD OF COOKING WITHOUT POTS AND PANS.

PAPER-BAG (ooko.y is .not exactly a new science. Nearly two hundred years ago -m experiment was made, and successfuily made, to cook in an envelope, but the idea was dropped, and it was not until now’that this mode Gl preparing food has been taken tip scriouslv.

Now that its merits have been discovered it is quite evident that the frying-pan and ...aucepan will be out of the reckoning when an up-to-date kitchen has t,- be furnished.

Paper-bag cookery consists of inclosing the dish to be cooked in a paperbag, pLming it on a grid in the oven, and leaving it until it is “ done.”

The merits of cooking in a paperbag are not confined to the facts that the food cooked in them is more nutritious than when tiono in the old-fash-ioned way, tior is it that the delicate fiavour of the fend which is so often lost when it is p’epared in a saucepan o; 'frying-pan is always retained when it is cook’ d in papei, but this form of cooking is < ht-apei , cleaner, and quicker than any other. It is these latter qualities which papei-bag cookery undoubtedly jKissesseA. that give it its popularIn tnese- nays w hen so many w omen attend to their own housework and do their own cooking, everything that saves time and trou'ulc is to be welcomed. When this is a.io combined with e-ciiomy in liu-1 or gas-fires, greater una: ishmeu.t, ai.il better flavour lu the l aid, no one will deny that the pa pci -bag has tomo to »tay in the kitchens of rich .u’d piior alike.

To the pa:.' man’s wife who has so much to do during ihe day besides preparing tile me.il-> to be able to cook her dinner in half the time and at half the outlay in tiring will be a tremendous boon, while the enormous saving of double in washing up and clearing the kitchen after preparing the meals cannot fail to be appreciated. Everyone who has ever washed np greasy saucepans knows well how distasteful a task it is. The paper-bag is a dainty, serviceable vessel in which to cook food, and, once used, it is thrown on the fire or in the dustpan.