A year's cookery

4. Pickle half a dozen small mackerel (August 28th). Sunday, April 19th. Breakfast. Dinner. Tea, Slipper. Sardines. Cold Pork. Brawn Sauce. Sally Lunns. Dry Toast. Watercress. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Milk Toast Milk Soup. Calf’s Head. Boiled Bacon. Greens. Potato Snow. Tinned Pineapple. Custard. Cheese. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Diy Toast. Strawberry Jam. Annie’s Cake. Sab non Salad (made of tinned salmon). Rhubarb Tart. Cream. Cheese. Breakfast. — Sardines (January 12th); Pork left yesterday. Brawn Sauce (January 15th) ; Sally Lunns (August 26th) ; Milk Toast (June 17th). Dinner. — Milk Soup (January 3rd). Calf's Head. — Take out the tongue, and if the head is not already perfectly cleansed wash it thoroughly. Put it into boiling water for ten minutes to blanch it; take it up, put it into a stewpan with cold water to cover it, and bring it to the boil; skim the liquor carefully, draw the pan back, and simmer the head gently till it is done enough. It will take from two hours and a half to three hours, according to its size, and it will require boiling half an hour longer with the skin on than without it. Remove the skin and fibres which hang about the brains, drain away the water, and put them into a stewpan with water to which a table-spoonful of vinegar has been added. Skim the liquor carefully, and boil for a quarter of an hour. Boil the tongue with the head (it should be put into the water three-quarters of an hour before the head is taken up), and when done enough trim and skin it. A short time before the head is to be served, chop the brains rather coarsely, put them into a saucepan, with half a cupful of good melted butter, a table-spoonful of chopped parsley, and three powdered sage leaves, if liked. Add pepper and salt to taste, and a few drops of lemonjuice, and simmer gently for a few minutes. Put the tongue, skinned, in the middle of a hot dish, pour the brain sauce round, and serve. Dish the head on a separate dish, and garnish with cut lemon and parsley, or with sprigs of boiled broccoli round it. Send parsley sauce to table in a tureen, and serve ham, bacon, or pickled pork as an accompaniment. Boiled Bacon (March 30th) ; Greens (June 4th) ; Potato Snow (April 7th) ; tinned Pineapple (April 8th) ; Custard (August 10th); Cheese (June 8th). Tea. — Annie’s Cake (September 25th). Supper. — Salmon Salad ( see Mayonnaise of Salmon, May 24th) ; Rhubarb Tart (August 7th). Things that must not bo Forgotten. 1. Turn and rub the beef in the brine. 2. Preserve the liquor the calf’s head was boiled in. 3. Preserve also the liquor in which the bacon was boiled. 4. Put a breakfast-cupful of split peas to soak all night in cold water. 5. Turn the mackerel in the vinegar. April 20th. Breakfast. Luncheon. Dinner. Pickled Mackerel. Minced Pork. Pease Soup. Bacon made hot. Jam Turnovers. Calf’s Head, Hashed. Sally Lunns. Boiled Bacon. Dry Toast. White Broccoli, Brown and White Bread Potatoes. and Butter. Semolina Pudding. Marmalade. Cheese. Corn Flour Milk. Marketing. For the Bay.— A pound of Apples ; White Broccoli ; Potatoes. Breakfast. — Pickled Mackerel (August 28th) ; Bacon left yester¬ day, made hot (February 26th) ; Sally Lunns (June 4th) ; Corn Flour Milk (June 19th).