paper-bagging

Updated: May 3, 2025

Years on years I was laughed at for maintaining that no range ever turned out things to equal open-hearth cookery. But it took paper bags to prove beyond cavil the truth of my contention. Even paper-bagging does not quite match the open-hearth process, though there is the same secret of superiority, namely, cooking things in their own essence by the agency of hot air.

Martha McCulloch-Williams - Dishes & Beverages of the Old South