A year's cookery

Breakfast. — Pickled Herrings, prepared last evening. When serving the herrings put them on a glass dish, pour a little of the vinegar round, and garnish with parsley. Mustard Sauce. — Make a little maitre cl’hotel sauce (May 6th) ; stir a tea-spoonful of mixed mustard into it, and serve. The pickled herrings will be very good without sauce. Toasted Bacon (January 19th); Rice Milk (June 18th). Luncheon. — Fried Plaice (April 21st) ; Dutch Sauce (May 14th). China Chilo. — Cut the meat from the bones in the loin of mutton, and retain a small portion only of the fat. Mince the meat finely, and wash and shred the lettuces. Put the meat into a stewpan with the shred lettuces, a pint of freshly-shelled green peas, a slice of sweet butter, a little pepper and salt, and a quarter of a pint of stock or water. Stir the ingredients over a gentle fire till hot, then cover the stewpan closely, draw it back, and let its contents simmer very gently for two hours. Boil a cupful of rice as for curry. Put the preparation on a dish, place the rice round it, and serve very hot. If liked, a large onion finely minced, or a small cucumber cut into dice, or a few mushrooms may be stewed with the vegetables; and when green peas are not in season, carrots, turnips, French beans, or cauliflower sprigs may be used in their place. Dinner. — Vermicelli Soup (March 22nd). Baked Rabbit — Skin, and empty the rabbits, and cut thorn into neat joints, convenient for serving. Pepper these lightly, and put them side by side (not one on the top of another) into a baking-tin, and lay a rasher of bacon upon each one. Bake in a moderate oven till the rabbit is sufficiently cooked. It will take about an hour and a half. Put the pieces of rabbit on a dish, garnish with the bacon, pour the gravy over all, and serve. The heads of the rabbits need not be put on the dish, but the flesh can be picked off to put with the remains of the rabbit in the gateau to-morrow, and the bones stewed will make excellent stock. Potatoes (April 12th) ; Cauliflower (April 25th) ; Wyvern Puddings (May 9th) ; Cheese (June 8th). Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Turn and rub the beef in the brine. 2. Prepare and slice the potatoes, and throw them into cold water, to be ready for frying to-morrow morning (February 2nd). July 9th. Breakfast. Broiled Kidneys. Fried Potatoes. Hot Buttered Toast. Dry Toast. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Watercress. Oatmeal Porridge. Luncheon. Rabbit Gateau. Compdte of Cherries. Bread Dinner. Sole au Gratin. Veal Stew Piquante New Potatoes, Green Peas. Roly-poly Pudding. Cheese. Marketing. For the Day.— One pound of Kentish Cherries; a shoe of Veal from the Fillet, weighing two and a half or three pounds ; a small Cucumber ; a Lettuce ; New Potatoes ; Green Peas. For To-morrow.— A pint of freshly-boiled Shrimps ; a small tin of Corned Beef. Bespeak a Lamb’s Fry for to-morrow. Breakfast. — Broiled Kidneys (January 29th); Fried Potatoes (February 2nd) ; Oatmeal Porridge (January 25th).