A year's cookery

Milk Soup. Rolled Tongue. Salad. Fowl Fricasseed. Teacakes. Macaroni Cheese. Potatoes. Dry Toast. French Beans. Brown and White Bread Leche Creme. and Butter. Cheese. Marmalade. Milk Porridge. Marketing. For the Day.— A Cos Lettuce; small Salad; Watercress; Beetroot; half a pound of Naples Macaroni (January 1st) ; French Beans ; Mint ; Parsley ; a plump young Fowl ; half a pint of fresh Mushrooms or a tin of Champignons ; half a pound of Tomatoes ; New Potatoes ; Ratafias. For To-morrow.— Order a Tame Rabbit to be sent in the morning. Breakfast. — Sardines (January 12th) ; Boiled Tongue, boiled yesterday ; Teacakes (February 14th); Milk Porridge (June 13th). Luncheon. — Mutton roasted yesterday ; Salad (March 13th) ; Macaroni Cheese (March 20th). Dinner. — Milk Soup (January 3rd). Fowl Fricasseed. — Draw the fowl, and cut it into small, neat joints convenient for serving. Put these into a stewpan, with shallot, two or three strips of baconrind scalded and scraped, or an ounce of lean ham, two cloves, two small carrots, a bouquet garni (that is, a bunch of parsley, a sprig of thyme, and a bay-leaf tied together), and half a blade of mace. Pour over all enough stock to barely cover the fowl, add pepper and salt, and simmer gently for half an hour. At the end of that time put the pan on one side, drain the stock into a basin, and when it is cold free it from grease. Meantime wash and peel the mushrooms, and put them into a separate stewpan, with a small slice of butter, a squeeze of lemon-juice, and half a gill of cold water. Let them boil once and turn them upon a plate. If champignons are used this may be omitted. Melt two ounces of butter in a stewpan, and mix smoothly with it one ounce and a half of flour, add the chicken stock and the trimmings from the mushrooms, and simmer all gently together, skimming the sauce when necessary till it is reduced to a pint. Put the chicken and the mushrooms into a clean saucepan, strain the stock over them, add a quarter of a pint of milk, or cream, if it is permitted, with pepper and salt to taste, and simmer all gently together till very hot without boil¬ ing. Put the meat on a dish, pour the sauce over, and garnish with sippets. Cold chicken may be fricasseed in the same way, but it will not need the preliminary boiling. Potatoes (April 12th) ; French Beans (August 16th) ; Leche Creme (May 7th) • Cheese (June 8th). Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Preserve any cold chicken that may be left. 2. Take only one or two sprigs of tlie watercress for the salad. Preserve the rest for breakfast to-morrow. 3. Make a corn-flour blancmange for luncheon to-morrow (June 15 th). July 29th. Breakfast. Luncheon. Dinner. Battered Eggs. Rolled Tongue. Hot Toast. Dry Toast. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Watercress. Biscuits and Milk. Chicken Kromeskies. Corn-flour Blancmange. Filleted Sole Saute, Anchovy Sauce. Tame Rabbit, Curried. Boiled Rice. Potatoes. Cabbage. Queen’s Pudding. Cheese. Marketing. For the Day.— A small piece of fat Bacon ; a pair of thick Soles, filleted (January 3rd) ; one or a pair of tame Rabbits, cut into neat joints ; Potatoes ; Cabbage ; a dozen fresh Herrings. For To-morrow.— A pennyworth of Small Salad. Breakfast. — Buttered Eggs (January 16th) ; Tongue boiled day before yesterday; Biscuits and Milk (June 14th).