Take a brace of partridges properly trussed. Cut into dice
1 inch thick a little less than ^ Ib. of bacon, put them
into the stew-pan ; cut 2 large onions in quarters, take
6 whole black peppers, a little salt, 1 bay-leaf, a \ gill
of vinegar, 1 gill of port wine, 1 gill of water, 1 table -
spoonful of salad oil. Put all these ingredients into the
stew-pan with half a sheet of kitchen paper; stew on
a slow fire for 2 hours. Then take out the partridges
and dish them, and put round some of the quarters of
onions which have been stewed, pass the gravy through
a sieve, and send to table.
Just now the greengrocers' shops in town and
country are full of very cheap large melons brought from
abroad. I find they make a very good compote if the
hard outside is taken off and the pulp cut into pieces
the size of a plum. Make a syrup of sugar flavoured
with the melon-peel, spice, bay-leaf, and a little powdered
ginger ; boil this up, and pour it over the pieces of melon.
OCTOBER 187
Turnips are often strong and hard with us. This
year they are delicious, and we have had a very pretty
dish — much appreciated — of small round Turnips boiled
tender, and served with a white sauce made of milk boiled
till it thickens, into which has been stirred a little butter
and cream.
Carrots, too, are delicious done in this way with the
addition of a little parsley and sugar.
The following is a good cake : — The weight in flour
of four eggs ; beat to a cream, butter, sugar, rind of lemon
grated, a few Sultanas, and citron ; then add the yelk of
each egg, one by one ; then add the flour, and beat the
white of the eggs to a froth just before putting it into the
oven. Bake for half an hour in a flat tin dish.
October ISth. — I have at last succeeded in flowering
the Schizostylis coccinea. I am relieved to see that in
the new edition of the ' English Flower Garden ' this is
pronounced a great difficulty in a light dry soil. It is
probably owing to the very wet autumn we have had
that these little Cape bulbs have done so well. They
were planted in fairly good garden soil, under the pro-
tection and shade of a wall facing east ; so they did not
get much sun except early in the year, when at rest ; and
when they began to grow, they were watered till the rain
came. When the flower-spikes began to colour and
nearly open, as the nights were very cold, I cut them and
put them in water in a warm room, and they bloomed
quite well. Two or three sticks as a support, and mats or
newspaper thrown over them, help these late-flowering
plants in prematurely cold weather, which often lasts only
a day or two.
October 2&th. — This is about the time we replant the
Violas and Saxifrages in the sunny beds, taking them
out of the shady border in the reserve garden. London
Pride is better taken up and divided every two years. As
1 88 POT-POURRI FROM A SURREY GARDEN
Saxifrages do not mind the dry springs, it is well worth
while to grow a quantity of London Pride, the bloom of
which resembles in colour a faint pink evening cloud ;
this is not only a satisfactory plant when picked, but it
will travel well, and makes a lovely support for Iceland
poppies and other flowers.
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Take a brace of partridges properly trussed. Cut into dice
1 inch thick a little less than ^ Ib. of bacon, put them
into the stew-pan ; cut 2 large onions in quarters, take
6 whole black peppers, a little salt, 1 bay-leaf, a \ gill
of vinegar, 1 gill of port wine, 1 gill of water, 1 table -
spoonful of salad oil. Put all these ingredients into the
stew-pan with half a sheet of kitchen paper; stew on
a slow fire for 2 hours. Then take out the partridges
and dish them, and put round some of the quarters of
onions which have been stewed, pass the gravy through
a sieve, and send to table.
Just now the greengrocers' shops in town and
country are full of very cheap large melons brought from
abroad. I find they make a very good compote if the
hard outside is taken off and the pulp cut into pieces
the size of a plum. Make a syrup of sugar flavoured
with the melon-peel, spice, bay-leaf, and a little powdered
ginger ; boil this up, and pour it over the pieces of melon.
OCTOBER 187
Turnips are often strong and hard with us. This
year they are delicious, and we have had a very pretty
dish — much appreciated — of small round Turnips boiled
tender, and served with a white sauce made of milk boiled
till it thickens, into which has been stirred a little butter
and cream.
Carrots, too, are delicious done in this way with the
addition of a little parsley and sugar.
The following is a good cake : — The weight in flour
of four eggs ; beat to a cream, butter, sugar, rind of lemon
grated, a few Sultanas, and citron ; then add the yelk of
each egg, one by one ; then add the flour, and beat the
white of the eggs to a froth just before putting it into the
oven. Bake for half an hour in a flat tin dish.
October ISth. — I have at last succeeded in flowering
the Schizostylis coccinea. I am relieved to see that in
the new edition of the ' English Flower Garden ' this is
pronounced a great difficulty in a light dry soil. It is
probably owing to the very wet autumn we have had
that these little Cape bulbs have done so well. They
were planted in fairly good garden soil, under the pro-
tection and shade of a wall facing east ; so they did not
get much sun except early in the year, when at rest ; and
when they began to grow, they were watered till the rain
came. When the flower-spikes began to colour and
nearly open, as the nights were very cold, I cut them and
put them in water in a warm room, and they bloomed
quite well. Two or three sticks as a support, and mats or
newspaper thrown over them, help these late-flowering
plants in prematurely cold weather, which often lasts only
a day or two.
October 2&th. — This is about the time we replant the
Violas and Saxifrages in the sunny beds, taking them
out of the shady border in the reserve garden. London
Pride is better taken up and divided every two years. As
1 88 POT-POURRI FROM A SURREY GARDEN
Saxifrages do not mind the dry springs, it is well worth
while to grow a quantity of London Pride, the bloom of
which resembles in colour a faint pink evening cloud ;
this is not only a satisfactory plant when picked, but it
will travel well, and makes a lovely support for Iceland
poppies and other flowers.