A year's cookery

Breakfast. — Buttered Eggs (January 16th); Pickled Herrings (August 20th) ; Sally Lunns (June 4th) ; Plum Porridge (August 31st). Dinner. — Boiled Turbot (June 7th) ; Shrimp Sauce (January 30th). Boiled Fowls, with Golden Rain. — Truss the fowls firmly for boiling. Put them breast downwards into fast-boiling water, which has in it a carrot, an onion, and a bunch of herbs. Boil for one minute, then draw the saucepan back and simmer very gently for about three-quarters of an hour, or for an hour if the birds are large. In this particular instance the birds are to be covered entirely with sauce, therefore it does not signify very much whether or not they are very white when boiled; otherwise they would look a better colour if they were wrapped in kitchen paper, thickly buttered, whilst boiling. It is evident, however, that the liquor could be more satisfactorily used if the paper were omitted. To make the Sauce. — Boil two eggs for ten minutes, let them go cold, then throw the white part into cold water to preserve the colour, and leave the yolks untouched. Melt an ounce of butter in a stewpan, stir in, off the fire, an ounce of flour, and beat the mixture till smooth with the back of a wooden spoon. Add half a pint of milk, and stir the sauce over the fire till it thickens ; then add a gill of cream, and the white of egg cut into dice. Let the sauce boil again, and be careful not to stir it, so that the egg white may not be crushed or broken. Take up the fowls, drain them well, and put the sauce upon them. Do this carefully with a spoon, so as to cover them in every part ; rub the yolks of the eggs through a wire sieve upon the breasts of the birds to make the golden rain, and serve. Bacon Bolls (July 19th); Potatoes (May 6th); Vegetable Marrow (September 3rd) ; Cocoa-nut Pudding (August 8th) ; Cheese (June 8th). Tea. — Plain Currant Cake (June 26th). Supper. — .Russian Salad (April 5th) ; Stone Cream (July 1st). Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. The Russian salad can be made with a little of the flesh of the boiled chicken, sardines, and a slice of bacon instead of ham. 2. If the legs of the chicken are not used, devil them for breakfast to-morrow ; they will have to be prepared over night (January 14th). 3. Carefully preserve the chicken bones ; they will greatly improve the stock. September 7th. Breakfast. Luncheon. Dinner. Sardines. Chicken Kromeskies ; or Giblet Soup. Devilled Drumsticks. Croquettes, made of Roast Shoulder of Mutton Sally Lunns. Spiced Beef. Mint Sauce. Dry Toast. Baked Batter Pudding. Potatoes. Brown and White Bread and Beans. Butter. Brown Bread Pudding. Milk Toast. Cheese. Marketing. For the Day.— Mint ; Potatoes ; Beans. For To-morrow.— Rolls for breakfast (September 8th); half a pint of full-grown Mushrooms ; a Saddle of Mutton. If the weather be favourable, this joint may be hung for nearly a fortnight, and cooked on Sunday week. It should, however, be looked at every day, and cooked earlier if it will not keep. Breakfast. — Sardines {see Marketing, January 12th) ; Devilled Drumsticks (January 14th) ; Sally Lunns (June 4th) ; Milk Toast (June 17 th). Luncheon. — Chicken Kromeskies (July 29th) or Croquettes {see Rissoles, January 6th) ; Baked Batter Pudding (February 5th).