A year's cookery

flavour each layer with pepper and salt. Beat two eggs, and mix them with a little milk. Melt an ounce of butter, throw it over the macaroni, and, lastly, throw the eggs and milk over all. Bake for half an hour in a moderate oven. Tie a napkin round the tin, and send the macaroni to table without turning it out. For economy’s sake, one egg may be used and bread-crumbs substituted for the Parmesan. Cake Pudding (February 4th). Dinner. — Crécy Soup (January 5th); Fillet of Beef, Boasted (February 11th or March 4th) ; Yorkshire Pudding (November 26th) ; Baked Potatoes (May 4th); Turnip-tops (June 4th); Newmarket Pudding (June 2nd) ; Cheese (June 8tli). Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Turn and rub the ox cheek in the brine. 2. Put a breakfast-cupful of lentils to soak in cold water. 3. Pastry is to be made to-day (April 17th) : open jam tart (August 7th), lemon cheesecakes (August 18th), apple pie (August 7th) ; also make teacakes (August 26th) and Annie’s cake (September 25th). 4. Put a tea-cupful of hominy to soak all night in cold water. 5. If any beef be left it may be potted for breakfast, and used instead of the potted grouse (January 23rd). April 4th. Breakfast. Luncheon. Dinner. Dried Haddock. Baked Mackerel. Milk Soup. Potted Grouse. Boiled Hominy. Lentils and Sausages. Teacakes. Potatoes, Fried. Dry Toast. Vermicelli Pudding. Brown and White Bread Cheese. and Butter. Porridge. Marketing. For the Bay.— Three moderate-sized Mackerel. Mackerel can he bought at such a cheap rate that it is not so much thought of as it would be if it were dearer. It should be procured very fresh, as it quickly becomes tainted. When fresh, the skin is of a beautiful sea-green colour, the eyes very bright, and the gills very red. The fish should be plump, but not over large. Three pounds of best Pork to make sausages (March 18th) ; two pennyworth of fresh Parsley: Potatoes. For To-morrow. — A slice of Ham, the third of an inch thick, if this is not in the house ; a quarter of a pound of Sorrel, a small Lettuce, and an ounce (that is, about a handful) of Chervil ; a pair of Guinea Fowls (see Marketing, Feb¬ ruary 11th) ; a slice of fat Bacon, it not at hand. One pound of cold boiled new Potatoes, a sour Apple, the remains of the German Sausage, four Sardines, and a few Gherkins and Capers, will be required for the Russian Salad to-morrow evening. A small tin of Sardines ; two pennyworth of Watercress to garnish the Guinea Fowl ; Potatoes, Seakale. ' Breakfast. — Dried Haddock (January 27tli) ; Potted Grouse (January 7th) ; Teacakes (February 14th) ; Porridge (January 25tli). Luncheon. — Baked Mackerel (April 15th) ; Boiled Hominy (February 11th). Dinner. — Milk Soup (January 3rd) ; Lentils and Sausages. To make sausages, see March 18th. Fry or bake the sausages (January 7th and December 13th). Boil the lentils (March 2nd). Cover the bottom of a dish with the lentils, arrange the sausages on the top, and serve very hot. Potatoes, Fried (February 2nd); Vermicelli Pudding (August 1st) ; Cheese (June 8th). Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Turn and rub the ox-cheek in the brine. 2. If any hominy is left, preserve it. It can be fried for breakfast on April 6tli. 3. Pluck the guinea fowls, and prepare them for roasting to¬ morrow. Cure the feathers (February 28th).