PAPER BAG COOKERY

...Then the bag is put into a well heated oven and left for twelve minutes...

...THE CHILD is predetermined by his very constitution to progressive development...

...Although there has been no tax levy, she proposes to get along without it by appointing women as city officials who will serve without pay...

...Cooking of Vegetables THERE ARE, however, certain kinds of vegetables also which are improved by being cooked in the bags...

...It would be difficult to make a failure with them...

...The chief authority on the subject is M. Soyer, who practically developed the art through a series of experiments carried on for years while employed as chef in various English houses and clubs...

...Many good and useful household appliances have been brought into disrepute by trying to make them do things for which they are not suited...

...Other towns have had Field Days," the writer said, "but this was somewhat unique, for the whole countryside was invited-— boys, girls, fathers, mothers, grandfathers, and grandmothers, and there was no admission fee and no charge of any kind...

...But when she has opened the bag in which, say, a five pound fowl has been cooking for sixty minutes, and finds it plump, and tender and juicy as a young chicken, and with a perfect flavor, she will not mind even the cleaning up which is the price of her experience...

...Dry with a soft towel and cool thoroughly before serving...

...Then let cold water run through the bunches...

...Poultry in Paper Bags IN THE CASE of poultry the use of the paper bag is merely an extension of the long familiar method of cooking small birds in paper cases...

...MRS...

...That it is quick, and economical, and clean, and that it gives good results, there is no doubt, but to make the entire process "most satisfactory" will require a good deal of experience...

...5. Contests and competitions are not the main thing...

...It is the placing of this bag on the market which has led to more general interest in this new form of cookery...

...She is making thousands of votes for woman suffrage every day.—Sacramento Bee...

...Again the principles of the Field Day were emphasized by being given a place on the printed programs, and to the three of last year quoted in the issue of La-Follette's referred to, the following new ones were added: 4. You can't drink strong drink and be an athelete...

...This ought not to deter people, however, from trying it...

...The last one puts into concise form the remedy which Dean Bailey of Cornell prescribes for many of the social ills of country life—the substitution of co-operative recreation for recreation supplied through commercial channels...

...How to Prepare Grapes for the Table IN PREPARING GRAPES for the table, dip them for an instant into boiling hot water to kill the spiders and small insects likely to be found on them...

...The thing that is new is the manufacture of a specially prepared bag which answers the purpose much better than anything hitherto used...

...Learn the great lesson that play is just as necessary for your sons as work...

...The simplest method is to prepare them as for broiling and place them in a slightly greased bag, closing the end by folding it over once or twice, and fastening it with pins or paper clips...

...If tomatoes are peeled, put into a greased bag with a little butter, pepper and salt, and placed in a hot oven for twelve minutes, a dish comes forth that is neither baked tomatoes nor stewed tomatoes, but combines the best qualities of both, with an additional dash of flavor...

...It was just the entire community making merry together with no one thinking of profiting by the occasion...

...Its festivals should be not only FOR the people, but OF and BY the people...

...The education of the individual should be related to the development of the race...

...If there is doubt as to the purity of your water supply, have water which has been boiled and cooled on hand for the final dip...

...Primary education should be universal, compulsory and free...

...ELLA WILSON, Mayor of Hunnewell, Kan., is making a plucky fight against the city council of five men who are trying to thwart her efforts to give the town a clean government...

...It is safe to say that in the cooking of fish, flesh and fowl the paper bag produces excellent results, and as these are the forms of food which leave the pots and pans most dreaded in the washing up process, its use for them alone would be a boon for the housekeeper...

...Campers are familiar with the method of cooking fish wrapped in grape leaves, and know the delicious results...

...The strong compete and grow stronger...

...Good for Mrs...

...The housekeeper who aims at efficiency will always welcome anything that promises improvement either in the ease of performing household tasks or in the results, and the paper bag promises both...

...The paper chars more or less and becomes very brittle...

...It is the content, not the form, it is the spirit, not the letter, that enkindleth.—The Playground...

...While new to America, it has been generally accepted in England and other European countries...

...Corn roasted in the husks, and potatoes in brown paper wrappers are common applications of the same principle...

...The Principle not New THE PRINCIPLE is not a new one...

...He must have Freedom, and Nature must have its opportunity...

...Amenia's Second Field Day UNDER THE TITLE, "The City Man in the Country," an account was given in La Follette's for October 1, 1910, of a Field Day, which took place on August 20 of last year at the country home of Professor G. A. Spingarn of Columbia University, in Amenia, New Jersey...

...the weak look on and grow weaker...

...Begin with Mutton Chops MUTTON CHOPS are a good thing to begin with...

...6. The community should help to run its own recreations...

...His book of directions and receipts1 has recently been published in this country, and is the best guide for those minded to try the experiment of substituting paper bags for the usual pots and pans...

...Get your boys interested in honest and healthy sports, and save them from drink and dissipation...

...The great difficulty is that as the weight increases the task of removing the bag from the oven intact also increases...

...There is no greasy pan or broiler to wash, only the paper bag to remove and throw into the fire, or into some receptacle for waste...

...This is the somewhat extravagant claim made by enthusiastic advocates of the new method of paper bag cookery...

...True education is growth, the outward evolution of an inward life...

...Limitations as Well as Uses THE ADVOCATES of paper bag cookery are wise in emphasizing its limitations as well as its uses...

...Potatoes, spinach, asparagus, peas, and other vegetables of delicate flavor are also improved by this process, but strong flavored vegetables, such as cabbage, cauliflower and turnip are best cooked in open pots by old time methods...

...Though somewhat difficult to obtain at present, the bags will soon be on sale in all large department and house-furnishing stores...

...Even when following carefully the directions to push a plate gently two inches or so under the bag, and then draw the bag completely onto the plate, the novice is likely to break the bag, and to lose some of the juices unless she has been thoughtful enough to place a pan under the rack to catch any possible drippings...

...The affair was so great a success that this year another celebration of the same kind was held, and last year's attendance of between three and four thousand was increased to about five thousand...

...The result will be a well cooked chop with all the juice and flavor retained to an extent quite impossible under ordinary methods...

...Wilson...

...Fish also, especially the large varieties, like halibut and salmon, which are cooked in slices, is much improved in flavor and flakiness, by the retention of the juices as in the paper bag process...

...The main thing is PLAY...