TIME TABLE. As a general rule less time is required for Paper-bag Cookery than any other way. While this approximate time table is at your service, experience will enable you to modify the figures to suit your own stove and your family's predilections as to having things rare or well done. FISH. | 1 lb. | 15 minutes | | 3 lbs. | 30 minutes | | 6 lbs. | 50 minutes | ROASTS. | Beef, 3 lbs. | 45 minutes | | Add 5 minutes for each additional pound. | | Veal, 5 lbs. | 1 hour and a half. | | Add 7 minutes for each additional pound. | | Pork, 3 lbs. | 50 minutes | | Add 6 minutes for each additional pound. | | Mutton, leg 8 pounds | An hour and a half | | Mutton, shoulder 5 pounds | 45 minutes | | Mutton, chops | 12 minutes | | Mutton, cutlets | 8 minutes | | Lamb, leg 7 lbs. | 1¾ hours. | | Lamb, shoulder | 50 minutes | | Lamb, chops | 10 minutes | | Sausages | 8 minutes | | Sliced Bacon | 6 minutes | POULTRY. | Turkey (stuffed) 15 lbs. | 2½ hours | | Turkey (not stuffed) 15 lbs. | 2 hours | | Goose (ordinary size) | 2 hours | | Goose (green) | 1½ hours | | Duck (old) | 1 hour | | Duck (young) | 35 minutes | | Guinea, 6 lbs. | 1 hour and 40 minutes | | Chicken (large) | 1 hour and a half | | Chicken (young) | 45 minutes | | Quail and other small birds | 15 minutes | | Stews (meat) medium sized | 1½ or two hours | | Potatoes (Baked) | 35 minutes | | Sweet (ten minutes less than by the other methods of cookery). | TABLE OF MEASUREMENTS. | 4 teaspoonfuls of liquid | 1 tablespoonful | | 4 tablespoonfuls of liquid | ½ gill or ¼ cupful | | 1 tablespoonful of liquid | ½ ounce | | 1 pint of liquid | 1 pound | | 2 gills of liquid | 1 cupful or ½ pint | | 1 kitchen cupful | ½ pint | | 1 quart sifted pastry flour | 1 pound | | 4 cupfuls sifted pastry flour | 1 quart or 1 pound | | 2 rounded tablespoonfuls of flour | 1 ounce | | 1 rounded tablespoonful granulated sugar | 1 ounce | | 2 rounded tablespoonfuls of ground spice | 1 ounce | | 1 heaping tablespoonful powdered sugar | 1 ounce | | 3 cupfuls cornmeal | 1 pound | | 1 cupful butter | ½ pound | | 1 pint butter | 1 pound | | 1 tablespoonful butter | 1 ounce | | Butter size of an egg | 2 ounces | | 10 eggs | 1 pound | | 1 solid pint chopped meat | 1 pound | | 2 cupfuls granulated sugar | 1 pound | | 1 pint brown sugar | 7 ounces | | 2½ cups powdered sugar | 1 pound | | 1 cupful stemmed raisins | 6 ounces | | 1 cupful rice | ½ pound | | 1 cupful stemmed raisins | 6 ounces | | 1 cupful cleaned and dried currants | 6 ounces | | 1 cupful grated bread crumbs | 2 ounces | | 8 rounded tablespoonfuls of flour | 1 cupful | | 8 rounded tablespoonfuls of sugar | 1 cupful | | 8 rounded tablespoonfuls of butter | 1 cupful | | 1 common tumbler | 1 cupful | | 3 tablespoonfuls grated chocolate | 1 ounce | | 4 gills | 1 pint | | 2 pints | 1 quart | | 4 quarts | 1 gallon |
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