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I've seen you post a couple times about cooking in a paper bag...I think you said you've done a pie this way and a ham. I've never heard of this. How does it work and what reason would it be done? I'm clueless.
Christina

Just bumpin' this up to make sure Vanessa sees it.
Christina

What's the purpose...grandpa Mears always did it! Never really had sense enough to ask him why...I just knew if he did it..that was the way you were supose to do it!
Actually...there are a couple of reasons that I will guess on. The moisture control is different that foil..the "baked" taste is different and the browning is wonderful. Grandpa never cooked a ham that he didn't put it in a brown paper bag..so neither have I. They are never dried out at all. The apple pie is something my sis & I came up with while "playin"...it is a wonderful pie.
You can use paper clips to seal the bag...but I use staples..(I keep a stapler in my ketchen for several things.)

Try it...you just might have a new Grandpa Mears tradition started!!!!

~V~