How to Make and Use a Pastry Bag

Ingredients

• a piece of strong cotton cloth twelve inches square
• a short tin tube

Method

1. 1

   Cut a piece of strong cotton cloth twelve inches square and fold it from two opposite corners, so as to give it a triangular shape.

2. 2

   On one side fell the two edges together, thus making a bag shaped like a 'dunce-cup'; and cut off the point at the apex just enough to permit a short tin tube to be pushed through.

3. 3

   Fill the bag with the mixture, gather the cloth together at the top with the left hand, hold the point of the tube close to the pan on which the work is to be done, and press the mixture out with the right hand.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 262. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

HOW TO MAKE AND USE A PASTRY BAG. Cut a piece of strong cotton cloth twelve inches square and fold it from two opposite corners, so as to give it a triangular shape. On one side fell the two^ edges to- gether, thus making a bag shaped like a " dunce-cup " ; and cut off the point at the apex just enough to permit a short tin tube

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