A year's cookery

.Dinner. Fried Plaice. Neck of Mutton, with Maitre d'Hôtel Sauce. Steamed Potatoes. Turnip-tops. Macaroni Pudding. Cheese. takes away the acrid taste. Melt one ounce of butter in a small saucepan, stir in half an ounce of flour, and beat the mixture over the fire with the back of a wooden spoon fill it is quite a smooth paste. Stir in gradually half a pint of cold water, and keep stirring till the sauce boils. Add a pinch of salt, and just before serving the sauce stir in the chopped parsley. Steamed Potatoes. — Old. potatoes only can be steamed. Wash and scrub the potatoes, and, if liked, peel them. It is best, however, to steam them in their jackets, and peel them quickly when done enough. Fill the saucepan belonging to the steamer with water and put it on the fire. When the water boils put the potatoes in the steamer, sprinkle a little salt over them, put the lid down closely, and place the steamer over the hot water. In about half an hour try the potatoes. If a skewer can be easily pierced through them they are done enough. If they have been peeled before being steamed, shake the steamer to make the potatoes floury. If they have not been peeled, skin them quickly and serve. Turnip-tops ( see Cabbage, June 4th); Macaroni Pudding (March 27th); Cheese (June 8th). Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Keep the bloaters apart from all other food. 2. Preserve the liquor in which the mutton was boiled ; it can be used for the soup to-morrow. May 7th. Breakfast. Luncheon Dinner. Bloaters. Spicy Pie. Mullagatawny Soup. Buttered Eggs. Semolina Mould. Stewed Beef. Rolls. Mashed Potatoes. Dry Toast. Spring Cabbage. Honey. Leche Creme. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Porridge. Cheese. Marketing. For the Day.— Three pounds of tender Steak (Marketing, January 1st). It should be cut evenly, and about an inch and a half thick. Half a pound of Ratafias; Potatoes; Cabbage. For To-morrow.— Dried Haddock ; a pennyworth of Mustard and Cress ; ofie four -pound tin of Australian Meat. Breakfast. — Bloaters (January 3rd) ; Buttered Eggs (January 16tli) ; Bolls (September 3rd) ; Porridge (January 25th). Luncheon. — Spicy Pie. — Make a little plain pastry with threequarters of a pound of flour, a pinch of salt, a quarter of a pound of clarified dripping, and half a tea-spoonful of baking-powder (Short Crust (June 19th). Cut the meat from the cold mutton, and keep the fat and lean separate. Throw the bones into the mutton liquor and stew them well to improve the stock. Mince the lean meat very finely, measure it ; mix thoroughly with it its bulk in fat, chopped finely, stoned and dried currants, chopped raisins, chopped apples, and moist sugar. Season with salt and a very little grated nutmeg. Put the mixture into a pie-disli, cover with pastry in the usual way, a.nd bake in a wellheated oven. Serve either hot or cold. Semolina Mould (July 23rd).