A year's cookery

Dinner. — Lentil Soup (April 1st). Tomato Beef. — Cut the tomatoes into slices ; butter the inside of a stewpan, cover the bottom with sliced tomatoes, lay on a portion of the beef, and put tomatoes and beef in alternate layers until both are used. Cover the pan closely, place it at the side of the fire, and let its contents simmer gently for an hour and a half. Add pepper and salt, and serve on a hot dish. Potatoes (May 6th) ; Town Pudding (December 3rd) ; Cheese (June 8tli). Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Turn and rub the beef in the brine. 2. Cleanse the small salad, and lay it on a cloth to drain, to be ready for breakfast ; also fillet the anchovies, and put the fillets between two dishes. 3. Pluck the fowl and hang it in a cold larder ; dry the feathers (February 28tli) ; clean the giblets, and afterwards throw them into boiling water for five minutes. This will help to keep them. October 13th. Breakfast. Luncheon. Dinner. Anchovies and Hard-boiled Eggs. Collared Tongue. Hot Buttered Toast. Dry Toast. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Milk Toast. Ham and Macaroni. Custard Sippets. Herrings and Mustard Sauce. Fricassee of Fowl. Potatoes. General Favourite Pudding. Cheese. Marketing. For the Day.— Half a pound of Macaroni ; Fresli Herrings. One for each person and one over (August 25th) ; Potatoes ; half a pint of Mushrooms, or a small tin of Champignons for the Fowl ; four-pennyworth of Finger Biscuits ; Quinces (see Note 4). For To-morrow.— Watercress ; Muffins (January 29th). Breakfast. — Anchovies and Hard-boiled Eggs (January 18tli); Collared Tongue (January 2nd) ; Milk Toast (June 17th). Luncheon. — Ham and Macaroni (April 3rd) ; Custard Sippets (June 10th). Dinner.— Herrings and Mustard Sauce (September 15tli) ; Fricassee of Fowl (July 28th); Potato Snow (April 7th) ; General Favourite Pudding (May 17th) ; Cheese (June 8th). Things that must not be Forgotten- 1. Turn and rub the beef in the brine. 2. Preserve any chicken that may be left. 3. Prepare the rice milk (Note 3, June 17th). 4. — Quinces come into the market in October. This fruit mixed with apples makes a most delicious pie or pudding. It can be pre¬ served as follows : — Peel the fruit and divide into quarters. Weigh it and allow three pounds of sugar and a gill of water to five pounds of fruit. Put sugar, water, and fruit into pint jars, tie brown paper on the top, place the jars in boiling water and simmer gently for three hours. Let the fruit go cold, tie it down tightly, and mix a portion with apples when pies are being made. Quinces thus prepared will not keep very long. October 14th. Breakfast. Luncheon. Dinner. Collared Tongue. Chicken Kromeskies. Potato Puree. Eggs in Brown Butter. Baked Plum Pudding. Boiled Rabbits. Muffins. Onion Sauce. Dry Toast. Rashers of Bacon. Watercress. Potatoes. Rice Milk. Cabbage. Chocolate Pudding. Cheese. Marketing. For the Day.— A couple of plump young Ostend Rabbits (January 24th) ; half a pound of Bacon in rashers ; Potatoes ; Cabbage ; a cake of French Chocolate ; a small plump Leg of Mutton, to be put in pickle for sour mutton ; a quarter of a pound of suet.