A year's cookery

For endive salad a chapon— that is, a crust of bread that has been rubbed with a clove of garlic — is excellent ; or, where garlic is objected to, two sliced tomatoes may be used instead. For celery salad, shalot and parsley can be used. For lettuce, a rctvigote — that is, a sprinkling of chopped tarragon, chervil, burnet, and chives — is better than any¬ thing else. Fortunately, the herbs are most easily to be obtained when the lettuce is in perfection. When they are not to be had, a little tarragon vinegar may be mixed with the French vinegar, and a shalot, or young onion, may be taken ; if a very mild onion flavour be preferred, chives can be used. Very superior salads may be made of almost all kinds of cold vegetables, such as cold boiled potatoes, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, green peas, boiled asparagus, celery, French beans, Windsor beans, sea-kale, haricot beans, lentils, and beetroot. All that is necessary is to mix three or four kinds to¬ gether, slice them, and then toss them up lightly at the last moment with the cruet-sauce described above. The addition of cold meat, cut into thin slices, cold fish torn into flakes, anchovies, sardines, or bloaters filleted, or cold chicken or cold game cut into neat pieces, will be a great improvement to a salad. — Baked Potatoes (May 4th) • Cocoa-nut Pudding (August 8th) ; Cheese (June 8th). Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Turn the flank of beef in the brine. 2. Pastry is to be made to-day (April 17th): an open jam tart (August 7th), lemon cheese-cakes (August 18th), and rhubarb pie (August 7th); also tea-cakes (August 26th) and sultana cake (Augustt 2nd). Half a bundle of rhubarb will be enough for the pie ; the remainder may be kept till to-morrow, to make the rhubarb mould for Sunday. 3. Wash a breakfast-cupful of German lentils, and put them in cold water to soak all night. 4. Boil about half a Canadian ham (Note 4, May 27th). March 14th. Breakfast. Luncheon. Dinner. Dried Haddock. Bubble and Squeak. Fried Whiting. Melton Mowbray Pork Pie. Remains of Baked Plum Sea Pie. Tea-cakes. Pudding1 cut into slices Potatoes. Dry Toast. and toasted. Boiled Lentils. Honey. Fig Pudding. Brown and White Bread and Cheese. Butter. Corn Flour Milk. Marketing. For the Day.— Fresh Whiting (see January 17th) ; two and a-half pounds of Buttock Steak (see Marketing, January 1st) ; quarter of a pound of Suet ; half a pound of Figs; two or three baking Apples; one-pennyworth of Parsley ; Potatoes ; Cabbage. For To-morrow.— A tin of Mock Turtle Soup ; a Fillet of Veal weighing about eight pounds (see February 25th). The fillet of veal is the thick part of the leg. The butcher will be prepared to take out the bone, and should send a piece of loose skin with the meat. Half a pound of Bacon, if this is not in the house (see January 3rd) ; two-pennyworth of Watercress ; Dried Sprats for breakfast on Monday ; a bundle may be allowed for each person. Breakfast. — Dried Haddock (January 27tli), bought March 13th ; Tea-cakes (February 14th) ; Corn Flour Milk (June 19th). Luncheon. — Bubble and Squeak ( see January 22nd) ; Plum Pudding, served a second time ( see Suet Dumpling, March 6th).