A year's cookery

Pour in the third of a pint of cold water, and stir the sauce over the fire till it thickens. Add pepper and salt, and a table-spoonful of cream. Boil the sauce again, take it off the fire, and stir in enough lobster butter to colour it brightly. Adel a few drops of lemon-juice, and serve. Ii it is to be had, a little of the lobster flesh, chopped small, can be stirred into the sauce, and will be considered an improvement. It is, however, oftener absent than present, as the meat is generally wanted for other purposes. Dutch Sauce (May 14th). Anchovy Sauce (July 17th) ; Shrimp Sauce (January 30th) ; Oyster Sauce (October 16th) ; Maitre d'Hotel Sauce (May 6th). Green Goose.— Proceed as for Roast Goose (September 29th), but do not stuff the bird. Season it, however, liberally inside with pepper and salt. Gooseberry Sauce. — Boil unripe gooseberries, drain them, and rub them through a sieve. Add a pat of butter to the pulp, season with sugar and salt if liked, and serve. This sauce is often served with mackerel. New Potatoes (April 12th); Lentils (March 2nd); Tinned Pineapple (April 8th); Cheese (June 8th). Tea. — Plain Cake (June 26th). Supper.— Beef, boiled (June 5th) ; Salad (March 13th) ; Red Currant Tart (August 7 th). Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Preserve any cold turbot that may be left. Excellent fish cakes may be made of it for luncheon to-morrow. 2. Put half a pound of Normandy pippins to soak all night in cold water. 3. Also put a cupful of haricot beans to soak in cold water. June 8th, Breakfast. Luncheon. Dinner. Dried Haddock. Fish Cakes. Oyster Soup (made of the Pressed Beef. Normandy Pippins. liquor the turbot was Toasted Teacakes. boiled in and tinned Dry Toast. oysters). Marmalade. Haricot Mutton. Brown and White Bread and Haricot Beans. Butter. Young Carrots. Corn Flour Milk. New Potatoes. Pancakes. Cheese. Marketing. For the Day.— -A tin of Preserved Oysters ; three or four pounds of Chops from the Loin for Haricot Mutton; Young Carrots; New Potatoes; the middle cut of the Silverside of Beef, weighing about eight pounds. For To-morrow.— Anchovies, if not in the house ; Radishes; Watercress. Breakfast. — Dried Haddock (January 27th); Beef, boiled (June 5th); Toasted Teacakes (February 14th); Corn Flour Milk (June 19 th). Luncheon.— Fish Cakes (January 13th) ; Normandy Pippins (August 16th). 2i a Dinner. — Oyster Soup (October 1st); Haricot Mutton (April 13 th); Young Carrots (July 6th); Haricot Beans (June 20th); New Potatoes (April 12th); Pancakes (February 24th). Cheese, To serve. — Cheese may either be brought upon the table whole or cut ; or, better still, it may be cut before dinner into small square pieces and handed round by the waiter. Fresh sweet butter, formed into small pats, balls, or rolls, and garnished with parsley ; pulled bread (August 27tli), rolls, biscuits, or rusks, with watercress, celery, salad, radishes, or cucumber, should always be sent to table with cheese. If this be done, and if care and judgment be exercised in the selection of the cheese, the course may be made most enjoyable. Foreign cheeses have become very popular of late (Boquefort, Camembert, Gorgonzola, Neufchatel, and Gruyère), and afford a most agreeable change even from the time-honoured Stilton.