A year's cookery

Sometimes a tea-spoonful of flour is mixed smoothly with the butter before the cream is stirred in. Raspberry Sandwich Pudding (November 29th) ; Cheese (June 8th). Tea. — Sultana Cake (August 2nd). Supper. — Russian Salad (April 5th) ; Plum Pie (August 7th) ; Ground Rice Mould (August 7th). Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Preserve any hominy that may be left. 2. Turn and rub the mutton in the pickle. May 18th. Breakfast. Luncheon. Dinner. Boiled Eggs. Rice and Cheese. Victoria Soup. Collared Tongue. Hasty Pudding. Minced Veal. Hot Buttered Toast. Fried Bacon. Dry Toast. New Potatoes. Honey. Cottage Plum Pudding. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Fried Hominy. Cheese. Marketing. For the Day.— Six ounces of Bacon in rashers (January 3rd) ; Potatoes ; six ounces of Suet. For To-morrow.— A quarter of a pound of German Sausage ; one Cow’s Heel ; Fillet of Beef (January 2nd). Bkeakfast. — Boiled Eggs ( J anuary 5th) ; Collared Tongue (January 2nd) ; Fried Hominy (February 12th). Luncheon.— Bice and Cheese (February 18th) ; Hasty Pudding (March 30th). Dinner. — Victoria Soup (February 9th). Minced Veal. — Take the remains of the fillet of veal, trim away the skin and nearly all the fat ; cut the meat into slices, then into strips, and then into very small squares. Do not, however, chop the meat. Mix with it a very small pinch of pounded mace and a grate or two of lemon-rind, and dredge flour thickly over it. Put the trimmings, skin, and bone into a saucepan with — supposing there is a pound and a half of meat — a pint and a half of the stock made from the veal bone, an inch of lemon-rind, two sprigs of parsley, and one of thyme. Cover closely, and stew gently for about an hour, till the gravy is strong and good. Let it go cold and free it from fat. Melt an ounce of butter in a stewpan, beat an ounce of flour smoothly with it, and add a quarter of a pint of the stock and the same of milk. Stir the sauce till it boils. Season it with salt and very slightly with pepper ; a spoonful or two of cream may be added, and is a great improvement. Put in the mince and make it hot through, but on no account let it boil. Turn it upon a hot dish and surround it with toasted sippets. Send strips of bacon to table with it. If preferred, minced veal may be coloured brown with a little brown thickening. Fried Bacon (January 2nd, Bacon fried with Kidneys) ; New Potatoes (April 12th) ; Cottage Plum Pudding (June 6th) ; Cheese (June 8th). Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Turn the mutton in the pickle. 2. Put a cupful of haricot beans to soak all night in cold water. 3. Brush the beef lightly over with vinegar, sprinkle pepper and salt over it, and hang it in a cool airy place (January 2nd). May S2th. Breakfast. Luncheon. Dinner. German Sausage. Cow’s Heel, with Parsley Haricot Pur^e. Eggs, with Brown Butter. Sauce. Fillet of Beef. Hot Buttered Toast. Elegant Economist’s Pud- Broccoli. Dry Toast. Marmalade. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Porridge. ding. Mashed Potatoes. Brown Bread Pudding Cheese. Marketing. For the Day.— Broccoli ; Potatoes. For To-morrow.— A Melton Mowbray Pork Pie; Forced Mushrooms; Water¬ cress ; a two-pound tin of Tomatoes ; half a pound of good Kidney Suet.