A year's cookery

Cocoa made from Cocoa-nibs. — See January 18th. June 1st. Breakfast. Luncheon. Dinner. Asparagus on Toast. Minced Ham. Sago Soup. Pickled Mackerel. Toasted Sippets. Cold Shoulder of Lamb. Vienna Bread. Lemon Cheesecakes. Cucumber. Brown and White Bread and Fresh Salad. Butter. Wyvern Puddings. Honey. Bread and Milk. Cheese. Marketing. For the Day.— A tin of Sardines (January 12th) ; a collared Tongue (January 2nd) ; a pound of American dried Apples, “ chips ” ; a Cucumber. As soon as a Cucumber is brought in, it should be put (the stalk end downwards) into a jug of cold water. Breakfast. — Asparagus with Eggs (May 4th) ; Pickled Mackerel (August 28th) ; Vienna Bread (August 26th) ; Bread and Milk (January 25th). Luncheon. — Minced Ham (made of the scraps cut from the boiled ham). — Prepare the ham as for ham toast (March 28th). Put the mince on a dish, garnish with toasted sippets, and send baked potatoes to table with it. Lemon Cheesecakes (August 18th). Dinner.— Sago Soup. — Wash two ounces of the best pearl sago in plenty of water, and boil it with a quart of good stock till transparent. Season with salt, a pinch of cayenne, a lump of sugar, and as much powdered mace as would lie on a threepenny-piece ; squeeze a few drops of lemon-juice into it, add a glass of sherry, if permitted, and serve. Lamb served, yesterday ; Cucumber (May 19th) ; Potato Salad (April 12th) ; Wyvern Puddings (May 9th); Cheese (June 8th). Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Turn and rub the beef in the brine. 2. Prepare the apple chips (Note 1, May 25th); stew them 'with the sliced beet-root after they have been taken from the jar. June 2nd. Breakfast. Sardines. Collared Tongue. Hot Toast. Dry Toast. Marmalade. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Milk Porridge. Marketing. For the Day.— A slice of Rump Steak, not less than one inch thick, and weighing from three to three and a half pounds (Marketing, January 22nd); Kidney Potatoes ; Apples ; Beetroot. For To-morrow. — A quart of fresh green Gooseberries ; Muffins (January 29th). Breakfast. — Sardines (January 12th) ; Collared Tongue (January 2nd); Milk Porridge (June 13th). Luncheon. — Eggs, Stewed with Cheese (February 10th) ; Rice, with Apples and Beet-root (January 28th). Dinner. — Potato Puree (January 26th) ; Broiled Steak (January 22nd) ; Béarnaise Sauce (March 23rd) ; Fried Potatoes (February 2nd). Newmarket Pudding. — Cut some slices of very thin bread and butter, and with them three-parts fill a buttered pie-dish, and sprinkle a few washed currants between the layers. Make as much custard as will fill the dish, sweeten it, and flavour it pleasantly by boiling the milk with a strip of thin lemon-rind, a bay-leaf, or a small piece of stick cinnamon. With a pint of milk put the yolks of two eggs and the white of one and a tea-spoonful of corn-flour. If more eggs are permitted the pudding will be correspondingly improved, and then the corn-flour may be omitted. Bake in a well-heated oven till the custard is set and the pudding is lightly browned upon the surface. A very pleasant variety of this pudding may be made by spreading a little marmalade upon the slices of bread instead of sprinkling currants between the layers. The name of the pudding will then be changed to Marmalade Bread and Butter Pudding. Cheese (June 8th). Things that must not be Forgotten.