A year's cookery

[Supposed to be Ash Wednesday .) Breakfast. Luncheon. Dinner. Rolled Herrings, Pressed Beef. Salt Fish. Croquettes. Baked Plum Pudding. Parsnips. Muffins. Egg Sauce. Dry Toast. Roast Neck of Veal. Brown and White Bread Gammon of Bacon. and Butter. Potatoes. Bread and Milk. Stewed Endive. Wyvern Puddings. Cheese. Marketing. For the Day. — The best end of a Neck of Veal weighing about six pounds. Veal should be small, finely grained, with firm fat, of a pinkish- white colour. If the lean be flabby and discoloured, or in the least degree green, it is tainted. It should not be kept more than two or three days after it is killed, but if eaten too fresh it will be hard. AA pennyworth of fresh Parsley; a quarter of a pound of Beef Kidney Suet, half a Pig’s Head and two Pig’s Feet for Brawn (see Marketing, January 7th) ; Muffins (see January 29th). * Breakfast. — Herrings (August 20th); Croquettes (January 6th); Muffins (January 30th) ; Bread and Milk (January 25th). Luncheon. — Baked Plum Pudding. — Chop finely four ounces of good beef suet. Mix thoroughly in a bowl three-quarters of a pound of flour, a heaped teaspoonful of baking powder, and a pinch of salt. Add the chopped suet, four ounces of stoned raisins, four ounces of picked and dried currants, four ounces of sugar, and two ounces of candied peel chopped small. Break an egg into a cup ; if perfectly fresh remove the speck, and beat the egg well with a table-spoonful of milk. Moisten the pudding with the mixture, and, if necessary, add more milk ; some flours require more moisture than others. It may be remembered, however, that the pudding when mixed should be very stiff- — stiff enough for the knife to stand up in it. Grease a dripping tin with dripping, put the mixture into it, and bake in a well-heated oven. It will be done enough in about an hour. Cut it into squares, sift white sugar over it, and serve. If preferred, dripping can be i rubbed into the flour instead of adding chopped suet, and an i additional teaspoonful of baking-powder can be substituted for (the egg. Pressed Beef, prepared February 24th. Dinner. — Salt Fish (April 10th); Parsnips (September 30th); Egg Sauce (April 10th); Roast Neck of Veal (May 28th); Gammon of Bacon (March 30th); Potatoes (April 7th); Stewed Endive (December 5th); Wyvern Puddings (May 9th); Cheese (June 8th). Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Preserve the liquor in which the bacon has been boiled. A portion of it can be put with different kinds of stock to flavour it. 2. For the pig’s head, see Notes 1 and 2, January 7th. 3. Prepare any remains of salt fish there may be for breakfast to-morrow (April 11th). February 26th. Breakfast. Luncheon. Dinner. Salt Fish RechaufiA Minced Veal. Macaroni Soup- Pressed Beef. Slices of Bacon, Cold or Curried Rabbit. Muffins. Broiled. Boiled Rice. Buttered Toast. Baked Apples, Potatoes. Dry Toast. Brown and White Bread Newmarket Pudding. Cheese. and Butter. Honey. Porridge. Marketing. 'For the Day.— Two fine and fresh Ostend Rabbits ( see January 21 th) ; a quarter of a pound of pipe Macaroni, if not in the bouse ; Apples, Potatoes ; Sea Biscuits. For To-morrow.— Six or eight small Soles, “Slips” ( see January 3rd) ; twopennyworth of Watercress.