A year's cookery

Dinner.— Guinea Fowl Soup (February 16th) ; Steak a la Béarnaise. For broiling the steak (January 22nd). Bearnaise Sauce. — Allow one egg for two persons, and one ounce of butter for each egg. The yolks only of the eggs will be required ; the whites should be preserved, and can bo used for the lemon sponge to¬ morrow. Beat the yolks lightly, put them into a small stewpan, and stir them without ceasing till they begin to thicken. Take the pan off the fire, and put in one-third of the quantity of butter that is to be used. Stir the sauce again over the fire for two minutes, when another third portion of the butter may be intro¬ duced off the fire. After simmering once more for . two minutes, repeat the process for the third time. Take the sauce off the fire, add salt and pepper to taste, and when it has cooled for a minute or two, stir in a little tarragon vinegar till it is sufficiently acid to suit the palate. Have ready (for three eggs) a tablespoonful of finely-chopped tarragon, or, when this is not to be had, a tablespoonful of fresh green parsley, and mix this with the sauce. Just before serving the broiled steak spread the Bearnaise Sauce over the surface and serve very hot. Fried Potatoes (February 2nd) ; Rhubarb Pie (August 7th) ; Cheese (June 8th). Things that must not bo Forgotten. 1. Turn the mutton in the pickle. 2. Boil the brine with an additional handful of salt, wash the pan, and pour it back again. March 24th. Breakfast. Luncheon. Dinner. Bloaters on Toast. Collared Tongue. Hot Buttered Toast. Dry Toast. Marmalade. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Bread and Milk. Devilled Eggs. Baked Plum Pudding. Fried Soles. Shoulder of Mutton. Browned Potatoes. Lemon Sponge. Cheese. Pulled Bread. Marketing. For tlie Day.— Two heads of Lettuce ; a pair of Soles (January 3rd) ; a wellhung Shoulder of Mutton, not too fat ; a piece of Silverside of Beef, weighing about eight pounds ; Potatoes ; a quarter" of a pound of good Beef Suet. For To-morrow.— A tin of Sardines ; two-pennyworth of Mustard and Cress. Breakfast. — Bloaters on Toast. — Put the bloaters into boiling water, and let them simmer gently two or three minutes, till the skin can be taken off easily. Skiff them, and lift the flesh from the bones in fillets. Brush these over with butter, and season them with pepper; then lay them between slices of buttered toast ; cut them into neat squares ; put them in the oven for a few minutes, and serve very hot. Collared Tongue ( see Note 2, January 3rd); Bread and Milk (January 25th). Luncheon. — Devilled Eggs (February 27th) ; Baked Plum Pudding (February 25th).