Bread Bags - what do you use?

I reuse Maier's Italian bread bags and even hamburger and hot dog roll bags to wrap my own loaves of homemade bread. I wash them in soapy water, rinse well and dry them by hand and then again hanging up inside out. How do you wrap your homemade breads?

Gwladys Jones Welsh Cookies

4 Cups Flour

1 tsp Nutmeg

1/4 tsp baking soda

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp Salt

1 and 1/2 Cups Sugar

1 Cup Currents

2 Eggs beaten

1/2 cup milk

1 Cup Shortening

Sift dry ingredients- Except sugar,
Cut in shortening like making pie dough.
ADD:
Sugar and currents and mix.
THEN ADD:
Milk and eggs, and form into a ball.
Roll dough 1/4" thick. Cook on moderate griddle until brown on both sides.
Coat with sugar before cooling on rack.

NOTE: This is a real Welsh Recipe from Great Grandpa Jones side of the family.

Meat Ball Pie For Fifty

Meatballs:

6 lbs Hamburger

6 eggs beaten

2 tsp Salt

1 Cup Chili Sauce

3/4 Cup Milk
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1/2 Cup Cooking Oil  for browning or baking meatballs.
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Gravy and Vegetables:

1 and 1/2 Cups Flour

2 TB Salt

2 Quarts Vegetable Juice

3 Quarts Mixed Vegetables
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Bisquick Mix- large box

Milk to make the biscuits
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Form meat balls into 1 and 1/2" balls, brown in 1/2 cup cooking oil (I would just bake them in 2 jelly roll pans in the divided oil at 400 degrees for 30 minutes or so)  You need the oil the make the gravy, don't omit it to save calories. Divide the meatballs between two foil pans.

Now pour the oil and drippings into a large pot and add the flour, whisk smooth over the heat and add the vegetable juice and salt then whisk until thickened.
Note: the recipe doesn't say whether to use canned or frozen veggies. If I used frozen I'd cook 10 minutes separately or in the gravy before diving between the two pans. Maybe you could use a large foil pan instead of two.

Divide the gravy and veggies between the two pans and stir to mix with meatballs.

Make Bisquick biscuits and place on top before baking at 450 degrees for 25 minutes. Serves 50

NOTE:Use your favorite biscuits if you don't like Bisquick ones.

Taken from 365 Ways to Cook Hamburger by Doyne Nickerson

Mexican Goulash for Fifty

3 lbs Hamburger

3 lbs Pork Sausage

6 Cups Chopped Onion

2 Cups Chopped Green Peppers

Brown in a large heavy skillet and set aside.

To Make White Sauce:

1 and1/2 Cups of Meat Drippings

3 Cups Flour

1 TB Salt

1 tsp Pepper

Cook over low heat until mixture bubbles.
Stir in 2 Quarts Milk and continue stirring until mixture begins to boil.

Combine:

Meat Mixture

3 Quarts White Sauce

3 Quarts Cooked Tomatoes

1 and 1/2 Pounds Uncooked Macaroni

1/4 Cup Chili Powder

1 and 1/2 TB Salt.

Cover and simmer 30 minutes, stirring often. Serves 50.


VARIATION: Place mixture in 4 baking pans and bake at 400 degrees for 50 minutes.

NOTE: I would cook the macaroni separate to al dente and drain before mixing in the FOIL baking pans. You could do this ahead of time for the homeless shelter.

Taken from 365 WAYS TO COOK HAMBURGER by Doyne Nickerson

Superior Bread Puddings (TAC)

One and one-half cupfuls of white sugar; two cupfuls of fine, dry bread crumbs, five eggs, one tablespoonful of butter, vanilla, rose water or lemon flavoring, one quart of fresh, rich milk, and one half a cupful of jelly or jam.  Rub the butter into a cupful of sugar; beat the yolks very light, and stir these together to a cream.  The bread-crumbs soaked in milk come next, then the flavoring. Bake in a buttered pudding dish- int  a large one, and but two thirds full- until the custard is "set."  Draw to the mouth of the oven, spread over with jam or other nice fruit conserve. Cover this with meringue made of the whipped whites and half a cupful of sugar.  Shut the oven, and bake until the meringue begins to color. Eat cold, with cream. In strawberry season, substitute a pint of fresh fruit for preserves. It is delicious. Serve with any warm sauce.

Burn Care

To draw fire out of a burn spread with soda. Then wrap with muslin. Than pore cole oil over it.

NOTE: I don't recommend following these directions but thought it was amusing to read. Does she mean "cold" or "coal" oil? I don't know how much baking soda though.. In order to "spread" soda I suppose it must be made into a paste with water? :  )

Puffed Rice Candy (From very old notebook)

1 Cup Brown Sugar

1/2 Cup Water

A Little Cream of Tartar

1 TB Vinegar

2 TB Butter

Boil for ten minutes

3 Cups of Puffed Rice


NOTE: This is the entire recipe word for word I found in a very old notebook with a linen fabric cover. The pages are falling apart. This one was written with a fountain pen. 

This is  similar to Carmel Popcorn.