A year's cookery

Take half a pound of lean beef (or hah veal and half beef may be used), cut them cut into small pieces, put it in a saucepan with a slice of butter and a minced onion, and move it about till brown ; put with it a bay-leaf, two cloves, six peppercorns, a bunch of parsley, a piece of carrot, and a pinch of bruised celery-seed tied in muslin ; add also a dessert-spoonful of corn-flour mixed to a smooth paste with water. Stir the sauce till it boils, cover it closely, draw it to the side, and simmer it gently for an hour or more till it is strong. Strain, let it cool, free it from fat, add a little sugar browning if necessary, and salt to taste. When wanted, boil it, put a spoonful or two of sherry into it, pour a little of it round the birds, and serve the rest in a hot tureen. Bread-crumbs for Game. — These can, for convenience, be made some time before they are required, then made hot in the oven. Take some stale crumb of bread, rub it through a wire sieve, and crumble it. There must be plenty of crumbs to cover a small dish. Then take a piece of butter about the size of an egg, throw it into an enamelled stewpan, put in the crumbs, and stir them till they begin to colour. Draw them back, and keep stirring till they are brown. Put them on blotting-paper before the fire to free them from grease, and toss them about with a fork. When heating them for use, they must not be allowed to remain in the oven till they are hard, or they will be spoilt. Bread Sauce (October 18th) ; Potato Snow (April 7th); Hydropathic Pudding made yesterday (June 16th) ; Cheese (June 8tli). Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Carefully preserve the bones and trimmings of the game, with any gravy that may be left; excellent soup can be made of it for to-morrow. 2. The remains of the cold beef can be made into Bubble and Squeak for luncheon to-morrow. 3. Put the flank of beef into the brine- October 7th. Breakfast. Ox Eyes. Calf’s Head Mould. Hot Buttered Toast. Dry Toast. Brown and White Bread and Birtter. Watercress. Biscuits and Milk. Luncheon. Bubble and Squeak. Sweet Macaroni. Dinner. Game Soup. Loin of Mutton, Boned and Boiled. Potatoes. Kidney Beans. Lemon Dumplings. Cheese. Marketing. For the Day.— A large Cabbage ; half a pound of Macaroni ; about four pounds of the best end of a Loin of Mutton ; the butcher should be asked to bone the joint. Potatoes ; Kidney Beans ; six ounces of Beef Suet. For To-morrow.— A tin of Prawns ; a small sugar-cured Ham ; Mustard and Cress ; the Fillet of the rump of Beef (Marketing, January 2nd) ; Fresh Rolls for breakfast (September 3rd); order four-pennyworth of Cream for horseradish sauce ; Sea Biscuits. Breakfast. — Ox Eyes (June 5th) • Calf’s Head Mould left from yesterday (April 20th) ; Biscuits and Milk (June 14th). Luncheon. — Bubble and Squeak (January 22nd) ; Sweet Maca¬ roni (August 13th).