THE NEW COOKERY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 380, 22 July 1911, Page 5

THE NEW COOKERY.

VOGUE OF THE PAPER BAG. Paper-bag cooking has absolutely conquered London. The London "Express" announced one day that they would supply these bags at a certain price. The next day they received orders for one and a quarter million bags. For nearly a month the paper bag fever has been raging in Melbourne. Four thousand people sought admission to a demonstration of paperbag cooking in that city. The hall could only accommodate 200 people. Those outside caused almost a riot in their attempts to enter. Now the infection has spread to Sydney. A cooking class at the Technical College experimented with these cooking bags, and the teachers and pupils declared that in a few days, Sydney would be thrown into the same state of domestic exhilaration that has agitated London and Melbourne; for on its first trial in Sydney paper-bag cookiiig proved a surprising and unequivocal success. A Te Kuiti housewife who wrapped the Sunday joint in a sheet of butter paper, carefully folding it over to prevent the air getting in or out, and placed it in the usual tin in the oven, found a wonderful improvement in tenderness and lack of burning or smell. The best paper is oiled paper secured by metal clasps, and the article to be cooked laid on a grid in the oven. But this material has not reached New Zealand yet.