Paper-bag cookery

A jam roly-poly pudding will be a nice finish to this dinner. It is too well-known to need a recipe. Friday A little fish once a week not only makes a nice change in the monotony of the midday meal, but is often a distinct saving both in health and pocket. Stuffed and baked haddocks are delicious. Make a stuffing in exactly the same way as described for stuffed breast of mutton. Wash the fish well and cut off the head ; then put in the stuffing. Sew up the fish or secure tightly with white cotton. Grease the outside of the fish slightly, this to take the place of the “ bits of butter ” put on the fish when the latter is cooked in the oven in the old way. Grease the bag well. Put in the fish and bake for from 20 to 30 minutes , according to whether two small fish or one large one is used. Slip out gently and serve with baked potatoes. Dressed macaroni will serve for a pudding. Take y2 lb. of cooked macaroni. Add to it a little white pepper, from 2 ozs. to 4 ozs. of grated cheese, and a liberal 2 ozs. of nut margarine, which is quite equal to butter in every respect, and contains no animal fat whatever. Grease the bag well with the nut margarine. Mix the macaroni well up with the cheese and nut butter, slip into the bag, and cook in a hot oven for 10 minutes. Slip out on to a hot dish and serve at once. Saturday On Saturday the housewife usually has a good deal of cleaning up and mending to do for the morrow, so she will need something which does not require much preparation beforehand. Liver and bacon, always a highly appreciated dish, will meet the difficulty, and there is no fear of it “ catching ” in the bag if she should chance to be called away for a minute or two. Slice I lb. of very fresh liver, dip each piece into flour nicely seasoned with salt and pepper. Put a piece of liver on top of each rasher of bacon. Grease the bag slightly. Put in the rashers and liver. Cook for 25 minutes. Open the bag, and slip out the meat gently on to a very hot dish. Put boiled potatoes round as a border, and pour the gravy over the potatoes. Jam buns are a tremendous saving of trouble when the housewife is very busy on a Saturday. Get half a dozen stale buns. Split them open. Pour a little boiling milk or water over them. Spread thickly with golden syrup. Make very hot in a bag (greased). INVALID COOKERY Sweetbread Mackenzie. — Blanch and trim a good sized sweetbread, make a little mirepoir of vegetables, paying attention to the color of the vegetables and seeing that they do not brown. Cut the sweetbread across the center, but do not halve it. Pound i oz. of pistachios and lay them in the slit of the sweetbread. Cover the sweetbread with the prepared vegetables and place in a well-buttered bag. Cook in a slow oven for 30 minutes. Dish the sweetbread, place the other ingredients in a fine sieve and lightly press the gravy through on to the sweetbread. Chicken and Rice Tea. — Chop up half a raw chicken, wash a tablespoonful of rice in cold water and mix with the chicken. Wash a teaspoonful of pearl barley and add with a quarter of a pint of cold water. Put the whole in a small paper-bag and cook for 40 to 55 minutes in a slow oven. no