A year's cookery

•the fire for a minute or two till the sauce thickens. Add the minced tongue, spread the preparation on toast, and serve immediately. Toasted Bacon (January 19th) ; Milk Toast (June I7tli). Luncheon. — Scrag end of Neck of Mutton with Bice (February 21st) ; Stewed Rhubarb (May 19th). Dinner. — Milk Soup (January 3rd). Beef Steak and Mushroom Pie. — Mix together on a plate a table-spoonful and a half of flour, a heaped tea-spoonful of salt, and half a tea-spoonful of pepper. Take away the fat and the skin from the meat and kidney, and cut both into thin slices. Put a slice of kidney upon each slice of meat, dip the two into the seasoning mixture, and roll them into little rolls. Put a layer of the rolls at the bottom of a dish, put the mushrooms (chopped) upon them, and add the rest of the meat. Pour in stock or water to three-parts fill the dish. Make some good Rough Puff Pastry (May 29th) ; roll this out once till it is the third of an inch thick, and rather larger than the dish it is intended to cover. Cut off a strip all round the edge, and leave the oval piece in the middle the same size as the pie. Moisten the edge of the dish with water, lay the strip of paste on it, and stick the ends together with a little water. Brush the surface of the strip with water, cover the pie with paste, and press the edges together all round. Cut the edge of the pie evenly all round with a floured knife ; ornament the top with any paste that may be left, brush the top of the pie with egg, make a hole in the centre to allow the steam to escape, and bake in a moderate oven. The pie should first be put in the hot part of the oven till the pastry rises and is firm, it should then be moved to the cooler part till the meat is done enough. It will take from two to three hours. If it is in danger of being too deeply coloured, a greased paper should be laid upon it. This method may be followed for all meat pies. Fresh rump steak, or the inside of a sirloin, or the tender part of the round, are the best portions that can be taken for a beef -steak pie, although a very good pie may be made of buttock steak. If liked, fresh oysters, or tinned oysters with their liquor, can be substituted for the mushrooms, or a few parboiled potatoes cut into slices pan be introduced. It is always best to have a little good gravy boiling hot ready to be put into the pie through the hole in the top after it is baked. Savoy (June 4tli); Potatoes (May 12th); Chocolate Pudding (July 24th) ; Cheese (June 8th). Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Turn and rub the mutton in the pickle. 2. Turn and rub the beef in the brine. 3. Make the Ground Rice Mould for luncheon to-morrow (August 7th). March 27th. Breakfast. Luncheon. Dinner. Prawns. Fried Ham and Eggs. Hot Buttered Toast. Dry Toast. Mustard and Cress. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Corn Flour Milk. Cow Heel, with Parsley Sauce. Ground Rice Mould, with Jam. Half a dozen Oysters each, with Brown Bread and Butter and Cut Lemon. Boiled Rabbits and Bacon. Onion Sauce. Mashed Potatoes. Macaroni Pudding. Cheese and Watercress. Marketing.