When they are in season, a
table-spoonful of green peas✪ Soup for the Shah may be boiled separately, and thrown
into the soup at the last moment. These will represent the jewels
Orientals delight in. Roast Sirloin of Beef (March 4th) ; Haricot Beans
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(.Tune 20th) ; Potatoes (May 6th). Devonshire Junket. — Pleat a quart
of milk till it is lukewarm. Meanwhile, put half a tea-spoonful of
powdered cinnamon and a table-spoonful of sugar into a cup, pour on
a wine-glassful of brandy, and stir till the sugar is dissolved. Add
this to the milk, put it into the dish in which it is to be served, and
stir in a table-spoonful of the prepared rennet. ' In three or four hours
it will be firm and ready to be served. If it can be procured, a little
clotted cream should be spread on the top of the junket, and white
sugar sifted over that. Sometimes fresh fruit is eaten with this dish.
Cheese (June 8th). _
Things that must not be Forgotten.
1. Cut the flap off the sirloin of beef, and sprinkle salt over it if
the weather be warm.
2. Turn the herrings in the vinegar, and put them in a cool place.
3. Cut a good-sized piece from the Canadian ham, and boil it for
breakfast to-morrow (Note 4, May 27th).
4. Pluck the chicken and hang it in a cool larder ; dry the feathers
(February 28th). _ _
September 18th.
Breakfast.
Luncheon.
Dinner.
Pickled Herrings.
Boiled Ham.
Bolls.
Dry Toast.
Brown and White Bread and
Butter.
Marmalade.
Milk Toast.
Flap of Beef, Boiled with
Carrots and Turnips.
Bice Bdchauft'e.
Filleted Hake.
Fricassee of Chicken.
Potatoes.
Baked Tomatoes.
Chocolate Pudding.
Custard.
Cheese.
Marketing.
For the Day.— A piece of Hake, weighing about two pounds, from the middle
of the fish (August 7th) ; Potatoes ; Tomatoes ; Turnips ; Carrots ; an ounce
of German Yeast ; Plums.
For To-morrow.— Watercress ; six or eight small Soles: “Slips” (January
3rd).
Bbeakfast. — Pickled Herrings (August 20th); Boiled Ham (May
27th) ; Bolls (September 4th) ; Milk Toast (June 17th).
Luncheon.— Flap of Beef, Boiled (February 23rd) ; Turnips (Sep¬
tember 30th) ; Carrots (July 6th) ; Bice Bechauftb (April 27th).
Dinneb. — Filleted Hake (July 19tli). Follow this recipe, sub¬
stituting only hake for the salmon. Chicken, Fricasseed (July 28th) ;
Potatoes (April 7th); Baked Tomatoes (July 7th); Chocolate Pudding
(July 24th) ; Custard (August 10th); Cheese (June 8th).
Things that must not be Forgotten.
1. Preserve the chicken bones and the liquor the beef was boiled in.
2. Pastry is to be made to-day (April 17th): Plum Pies (August
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7th) and Treacle Tart (August 7th.) ; also Milk Rolls (August 26th) and
Rice Cake (August 2nd).
3. Partially prepare the rice milk for breakfast (see Note 3, June
1 7th).
4. Soak a cupful of white haricot beans in cold water all night.
September 19th.
Breakfast.
Luncheon.
Dinner.
Baked Slips.
Liver and Bacon.
Boiled Brill and Anchovy
Boiled Ham.
Treacle Tart.
Sance
Milk Rolls.
Sea Pie,
Dry Toast.
Potatoes.
Brown and White Bread and
Mashed Turnips.
Butter.
Guest’s Pudding.
Watercress.
Rice Milk.
Cheese.
Marketing.
For tlie Day.— A pound and a half of Calf’s Liver ; half a pound of Streaky
Bacon (January 3rd) ; a thick Brill (January 9th) ; two pounds and a half of
Buttock Steak (see Marketing, January 1st) ; Turnips; Potatoes; Parsley;
ten ounces of firm Suet.
A year's cookery
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
When they are in season, a table-spoonful of green peas may be boiled separately, and thrown into the soup at the last moment. These will represent the jewels Orientals delight in. Roast Sirloin of Beef (March 4th) ; Haricot Beans
(June 20th) ; Potatoes (May 6th). Devonshire Junket. — Heat a quart of milk till it is lukewarm. Meanwhile, put half a tea-spoonful of powdered cinnamon and a table-spoonful of sugar into a cup, pour on a wine-glassful of brandy, and stir till the sugar is dissolved. Add this to the milk, put it into the dish in which it is to be served, and stir in a table-spoonful of the prepared rennet. ' In three or four hours it will be firm and ready to be served. If it can be procured, a little clotted cream should be spread on the top of the junket, and white sugar sifted over that. Sometimes fresh fruit is eaten with this dish. Cheese (June 8th). _
Things that must not be Forgotten.
1. Cut the flap off the sirloin of beef, and sprinkle salt over it if the weather be warm.
2. Turn the herrings in the vinegar, and put them in a cool place.
3. Cut a good-sized piece from the Canadian ham, and boil it for breakfast to-morrow (Note 4, May 27th).
4. Pluck the chicken and hang it in a cool larder ; dry the feathers
(February 28th). _ _
September 18th.
Breakfast.
Luncheon.
Dinner.
Pickled Herrings.
Boiled Ham.
Rolls.
Dry Toast.
Brown and White Bread and Butter.
Marmalade.
Milk Toast.
Flap of Beef, Boiled with Carrots and Turnips. Bice Béchaumel.
Filleted Hake. Fricassee of Chicken. Potatoes.
Baked Tomatoes. Chocolate Pudding. Custard.
Cheese.
Marketing.
For the Day.— A piece of Hake, weighing about two pounds, from the middle of the fish (August 7th) ; Potatoes ; Tomatoes ; Turnips ; Carrots ; an ounce of German Yeast ; Plums.
For To-morrow.— Watercress ; six or eight small Soles: “Slips” (January 3rd).
Breakfast. — Pickled Herrings (August 20th); Boiled Ham (May 27th) ; Rolls (September 4th) ; Milk Toast (June 17th).
Luncheon.— Flap of Beef, Boiled (February 23rd) ; Turnips (Sep¬ tember 30th) ; Carrots (July 6th) ; Bice Béchaumel (April 27th).
Dinner. — Filleted Hake (July 19tli). Follow this recipe, sub¬ stituting only hake for the salmon. Chicken, Fricasseed (July 28th) ; Potatoes (April 7th); Baked Tomatoes (July 7th); Chocolate Pudding (July 24th); Custard (August 10th); Cheese (June 8th)..
Things that must not be Forgotten.
1. Preserve the chicken bones and the liquor the beef was boiled in.
2. Pastry is to be made to-day (April 17th): Plum Pies (August
7th) and Treacle Tart (August 7th.) ; also Milk Rolls (August 26th) and Rice Cake (August 2nd).
3. Partially prepare the rice milk for breakfast (see Note 3, June 1 7th).
4. Soak a cupful of white haricot beans in cold water all night.
September 19th.
Breakfast.
Luncheon.
Dinner.
Baked Slips.
Liver and Bacon.
Boiled Brill and Anchovy
Boiled Ham.
Treacle Tart.
Sance
Milk Rolls.
Sea Pie,
Dry Toast.
Potatoes.
Brown and White Bread and
Mashed Turnips.
Butter.
Guest’s Pudding.
Watercress.
Rice Milk.
Cheese.
Marketing.
For tlie Day.— A pound and a half of Calf’s Liver ; half a pound of Streaky Bacon (January 3rd) ; a thick Brill (January 9th) ; two pounds and a half of Buttock Steak (see Marketing, January 1st) ; Turnips; Potatoes; Parsley; ten ounces of firm Suet.
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