A year's cookery

Luncheon, Dinner. Pilchards. Bubble and Squeak. Lentil Soup. Boiled Bacon. Stewed Prunes. Stewed Ox-tails. Hot Toast. Potatoes. Dry Toast. Broccoli. Watercress and Radishes. Wyvern Puddings. Brown and White Bread Cheese. and Butter. Porridge. Marketing. For the Day.— Broccoli ; two Ox-tails (the butcher should he asked to send these home ready jointed); a pennyworth of Parsley; Potatoes, Broccoli, Carrots, Turnips, Onions. For To-morrow.— Scallops for breakfast (March 7th) ; German Sausage ; Fresh Rolls (September 3rd). Breakfast.— Pilchards (January 23rd) ; Bacon, Boiled (Marcji 30th) ; Radishes (March 12th) ; Porridge (January 25th). Luncheon. — Bubble and Squeak (January 22nd), made of the unsightly remains of the boiled beef. Stewed Prunes (February 27th). Dinner. — Lentil Soup. — Make the soup of the beef liquor, first tasting it to make sure that it will not be too salt. A little of the bacon liquor will be an improvement. Drain the lentils, and put them into a stewpan with the stock, and throw in two onions, two carrots, a turnip, a bunch of parsley, a pinch of savoury herbs, a bay leaf, and, more important than all, either half-a-dozen outer sticks of celery or half a tea-spoonful of bruised celery seed, and a crust of stale bread. Let the liquor boil, skim it occasionally to take off the dark film that keeps rising to the surface, and boil gently for about four hours till the lentils are thoroughly soft. Strain the soup through a wire sieve, take out the parsley, and rub everything else patiently through the sieve into a basin. Keep a small portion of the liquor hot wherewith to moisten the pulp now and then, and so make it go through more easily. Boil the soup again before sending it to table, and serve it very hot. Add a few drops of sugar browning to improve its appearance. Stir it frequently whilst boiling it, to keep it from burning. Some people add a cupful of boiling milk to this soup. Stewed Ox-tails (May 8th) ; Potatoes (May 6th) ; Broccoli (April 25th) ; Wyvern Puddings (May 9th) ; Cheese (June 8th). Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Turn and rub the cheek in the brine. 2. Put two table-spoonfuls of tapioca with an inch or two of thin lemon-rind to soak all night in a pint of water. 3. Make the hydropathic pudding for dinner to-morrow of bottled raspberries (June 16th). April 2nd, Breakfast. | Luncheon. German Sausage. Stewecl Ox Kidney. Scallops. Tapioca and Apples. Rolls. , i Dry Toast. Marmalade. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Porridge. Marketing. For the Day.— One fresh Ox Kidney ; a tin of Boiled Chicken ; a tin of Cham¬ pignons. or a few forced Mushrooms ; half a pound of thin rashers of streaky Bacon ; Potatoes, Seakale. For To-morrow.— About four pounds of the Fillet of the Rump of Beef. (See Marketing, January 2nd.) Dinner. Parsnip Soup. Chicken Sauté aux Champignons (made of tinned chicken). Potatoes. Seakale. Hydropathic Pudding. Cheese. Breakfast. — German Sausage (June 6th) ; Scallops (March 7th) ; Rolls (September 4tli) ; Porridge (January 25tli).