Paper-bag Cookery

The volume explains a method of wrapping individual food items in paper and baking them so they cook in hot air and their own steam, and presents nearly two hundred recipes plus guidance for fish, meat, vegetables, puddings and miscellaneous dishes. It lists practical benefits such as flavour retention, reduced weight loss, fuel and labour savings, shorter cooking times, ease of overnight preparation, reduced grease and cleaner kitchens, and offers practical instructions for bag handling, joint placement and oven precautions. Recipes adapt traditional dishes to the paper-bag technique, covering steamed puddings, roasts, vegetables and fish prepared simultaneously without flavour transfer.