A year's cookery

4. Make a little Mayonnaise sauce for the salad to-morrow (August 30tli). If this is put into a bottle and corked well down, it will keep for some weeks. It takes a good deal of making, therefore it will be well not to put it off till Sunday. Sunday, April 5th. Breakfast. Dinner. Tea. Supper. Fried Ham. Fried Eggs. Teacakes. Dry Toast. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Porridge. Milk Soup. Guinea Fowl. Bread Sauce. Brown Gravy. Potatoes. Seakale. Hayrick Puddings. Cheese. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Apple Jelly. Annie’s Cake. Russian Salad. Apple Pie. Half of Lemon Cheesecakes. Cheese. Breakfast. — Fried Ham (March 5th) ; Fried Eggs (March 5tli) ; Teacakes (February 14tli) ; Porridge (January 25th). Dinner. — Milk Soup (January 3rd). Guinea Fold. — Properly, a guinea fowl ought to be larded. The operation is not at all difficult, but if the cook is afraid of it she may dispense with it, and tie a slice of fat bacon over the breasts of the birds. It is best to tie a piece of greased paper also round the birds before putting them down to the hre; this paper can be removed ten minutes before the guinea fowls are taken up. For the rest, see June 30th. Brown gravy (October 18th) should be poured into the dish (not over the birds), and more may be sent to table in one tureen and bread sauce in another. The appearance of the birds will be improved if a little clear brown gravy be boiled quickly down to glaze (March 21st) and poured over them, and the dish may be garnished with water¬ cress. A fine young guinea fowl would need about thirty-five minutes’ roasting before a clear, quick fire. Bread Sauce (October 18th); Potatoes (April 7th); Seakale (June 14th); Hayrick Puddings (March 19th) ; Cheese (June 8th). Tea. — Annie’s Cake (September 25th). Suppee. — Russian Salad. — Pick four ounces of meat from the guinea fowl. (Cooked veal or any white meat might be used for this purpose.) Cut into small pieces one pound of cold boiled potatoes and four sardines, and mince finely a sour apple, pared and cored, and a tea-spoonful of capers. Slice thinly an inch of German sausage and six pickled gherkins. Put all these ingredients into a dish, mix them thoroughly ; then toss them up, just before serving, with a quarter of a pint of Mayonnaise sauce. Garnish with hard-boiled egg and strips of boiled beetroot. If more convenient, ham can be used instead of German sausage, and anchovies instead of sardines. Apple Pie (August 7th) ; Lemon Cheesecakes (August 18th). Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Turn and rub the ox-cheek in the brine. 2. Preserve the bones and trimmings of the guinea fowl. 3. If it can be managed without inconvenience, leave the legs of the guinea fowl untouched; then devil them for breakfast (January 14th). April 6th. Breakfast, Luncheon. Dinner. Devilled Drum -sticks or Beef Collops. Guinea Fowl Soup. Ham Toast. Lemon Cheesecakes. Filets de Boeuf à la Béarnaise Sardines. Fried Hominy. Mashed Potatoes. Dry Toast. Poly-poly Pudding. Brown and 'White Bread Cheese. and Butter. Porridge. Marketing.