Soyer's Paper-Bag Cookery By One Who Has Tried the Soyer Paper-bag System

The era of Paper-Bag Cookery opens up a happier prospect to the wife of the working man, not only in the quality of the dishes she may prepare, but in more leisure for herself.

Lest any frugal housewife may be appalled at the prospect at having to use some two or three bags before she can produce a dinner, let me state that all the following recipes, each of which I have tested personally, can be cooked in one bag, leaving only the pudding, pie, or tart to be considered.

In drawing up these dinners for a week, I have had in mind a household consisting of mother, father, and three or four children, ranging from twelve to five years of age.

It must be borne in mind that meat wastes practically not at all during the cooking process in the bag; therefore if you put four pounds in the bag, four pounds will come out.