the carrots, cut them up and shred them finely, and put with them a handful of parsley chopped small. Put them into a stewpan with four quarts of boiling stock or water, and add the yellow part only of three young carrots finely grated, a pint and a half of green jieas, or half the quantity provided, and the loin or neck of mutton✪ Scotch Hotch Potch cut into neat chops. If lamb is preferred it should be kept whole. Boil gently for an hour and a half, season with pepper and salt, add the rest of the peas, boil half an hour longer, and serve. The cutlets should be put into the tureen with the hotch potch. This dish is called a soup, but it is much more like a stew. Of course, if thought well, it can be served as a soup, and meat can be sent to table after it is removed. Hayrick Puddings (March 19th) ; Cheese (June 8th). Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Cut the brisket of beef that has been in salt in two pieces, tie one half securely on the top of the other, and boil it till tender, then press it under a weight (February 23rd). 2. Pastry is to be made to-day (April 17tli) : red currant pie of bottled fruit (August 7tli) ; jam turnovers (September 25th) ; also teacakes (August 26th), and good currant cake (June 26th). Breakfast. Sardines. Corned Beef. Teacakes. Dry Toast. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Marmalade. Bread and Milk. July SSth. Luncheon. Fish Pie (made of remains of Brill). Hotch Potch made hot. Jam Turnovers. Dinner. Potato Puree. Calf’s Liver and Bacon. Potatoes. Cabbage-Greens. Eed Currant Pie. Cream. Cheese. Marketing. For tiie Day.— A pound and a half of Calf’s Liver : hah a pound of streaky Bacon cut into rashers ; a pennyworth of Parsley : Potatoes, Greens. For To-morrow.— Fresh Strawberries, and half a pint of milk for each child for breakfast; Watercress; four or five Tomatoes; a moderate-sized but thick Turbot, with a little Lobster Spawn, if Lobster Sauce is required ; two Leverets (June 13th) ; three-quarters of a pound of Bacon in rashers— half a pound of this is for breakfast ; half a pint of Mushrooms, or, if these are not to be had, a small tin of Champignons ; Green Peas, New Potatoes ; eight stale sponge fingers and three or four Ratafias. Materials for a salad : Lettuce, Beetroot, and Endive ; a pound of Cherries for the gateau ; if permitted, order half a pint of double cream for the gateau. A Ham bought July 1st is supposed to be in cut. Breakfast. — Sardines (January 12 th); Corned Beef, bought July 9th; Teacakes (February 14tli); Bread and Milk (January 25th). A YEAR'S COOKERY. 253 Luncheon. — Fish Pie (see Cod Pie, January 2nd) ; Hotc-h Potch served yesterday ; Jam Turnovers (September 25th). Dinner. — Potato Pur6e (January 26tli) ; Calf’s Liver and Bacon (January 17th) ; Potatoes (April 12th) ; Cabbage Greens (June 4th) ; Red Currant Pie (August 7th) ; Cheese (June 8th). Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Glaze the beef (March 21st). 2. Do not pour the cabbage water down any of the drains of the house.

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the carrots, cut them up and shred them finely, and put with them a handful of parsley chopped small. Put them into a stewpan with four quarts of boiling stock or water, and add the yellow part only of three young carrots finely grated, a pint and a half of green jieas, or half the quantity provided, and the loin or neck of mutton cut into neat chops. If lamb is preferred it should be kept whole. Boil gently for an hour and a half, season with pepper and salt, add the rest of the peas, boil half an hour longer, and serve. The cutlets should be put into the tureen with the hotch potch. This dish is called a soup, but it is much more like a stew. Of course, if thought well, it can be served as a soup, and meat can be sent to table after it is removed. Hayrick Puddings (March 19th) ; Cheese (June 8th). Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Cut the brisket of beef that has been in salt in two pieces, tie one half securely on the top of the other, and boil it till tender, then press it under a weight (February 23rd). 2. Pastry is to be made to-day (April 17tli) : red currant pie of bottled fruit (August 7tli) ; jam turnovers (September 25th) ; also teacakes (August 26th), and good currant cake (June 26th). Breakfast. Sardines. Corned Beef. Teacakes. Dry Toast. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Marmalade. Bread and Milk. July SSth. Luncheon. Fish Pie (made of remains of Brill). Hotch Potch made hot. Jam Turnovers. Dinner. Potato Puree. Calf’s Liver and Bacon. Potatoes. Cabbage-Greens. Eed Currant Pie. Cream. Cheese. Marketing. For tiie Day.— A pound and a half of Calf’s Liver : hah a pound of streaky Bacon cut into rashers ; a pennyworth of Parsley : Potatoes, Greens. For To-morrow.— Fresh Strawberries, and half a pint of milk for each child for breakfast; Watercress; four or five Tomatoes; a moderate-sized but thick Turbot, with a little Lobster Spawn, if Lobster Sauce is required ; two Leverets (June 13th) ; three-quarters of a pound of Bacon in rashers— half a pound of this is for breakfast ; half a pint of Mushrooms, or, if these are not to be had, a small tin of Champignons ; Green Peas, New Potatoes ; eight stale sponge fingers and three or four Ratafias. Materials for a salad : Lettuce, Beetroot, and Endive ; a pound of Cherries for the gateau ; if permitted, order half a pint of double cream for the gateau. A Ham bought July 1st is supposed to be in cut. Breakfast. — Sardines (January 12 th); Corned Beef, bought July 9th; Teacakes (February 14tli); Bread and Milk (January 25th). Luncheon. — Fish Pie (see Cod Pie, January 2nd) ; Hotc-h Potch served yesterday ; Jam Turnovers (September 25th). Dinner. — Potato Pur6e (January 26tli) ; Calf’s Liver and Bacon (January 17th) ; Potatoes (April 12th) ; Cabbage Greens (June 4th) ; Red Currant Pie (August 7th) ; Cheese (June 8th). Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Glaze the beef (March 21st). 2. Do not pour the cabbage water down any of the drains of the house.

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