A year's cookery

March 19th. Breakfast. Luncheon. Dinner. Bloaters. Buttered Eggs. Battered Toast. Dry Toast. Watercress. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Milk Toast. Toad in-the-kole. Stewed Prunes. Kidney Soup. Boiled Leg of Mutton j Caper Sauce. Carrots, Mashed Parsnips. Potatoes. Hayrick Puddings. Cheese. Marketing. For the Day.— Half an Ox Kidney ; a well-hung Leg of Mutton for dinner, and another one, small, plump, and freshly killed, to prepare for dinner on Sunday week. Potatoes, Carrots, Parsnips. It is probable that Turnips will be too old for mashing, or they might be used. For To-mturrow.— One tin of preserved Salmon; half a pint of Mushrooms. Forced mushrooms are usually to be had at a cheap rate at this time of year. One tin of Bovill’s potted Partridge ; two-pennyworth of Radishes. Breakfast. — Bloaters (January 3rd) ; Buttered Eggs (January 16th); Milk Toast (June 17th). Luncheon. — Toad-in-the-hole, made of the remains of sausages (January 15th) ; Stewed Prunes (February 27th). Dinner. — Kidney Soup (February 27th) ; Boiled Leg of Mutton {see February 23rd). Caper Sauce. — Take a good tablespoonful of capers, and bruise them well with a wooden spoon. Make half a pint of good melted butter (July 17th), and stir the mashed capers into this. Taste the sauce ; if not sufficiently acid, add a little vinegar, and serve. Carrots (July 6tli) ; Mashed Parsnips (Sep¬ tember 30tli) ; Potatoes (May 12th). Hayrick Puddings. — Put two ounces of fresh butter into a small jar, and place this in a large bowl of hot water till the butter is nearly melted. The water must not go into the jar. Beat the melted butter to cream, and throw in gradually, whilst beating, two well-whisked eggs. Add, a little at a time, two ounces of fine flour, the grated rind of a fresh lemon, and two tablespoonfuls of sugar. Just before baking, stir in a small pinch of baking powder. Warm some dariole moulds, grease them inside with butter, three-parts fill them with the mixture, and bake in a well-heated oven till they are well risen and brown. They will take about twenty minutes. Lemon Syrup. — Squeeze the juice of a lemon into a small cupful of water, and boil it with five moderatesized lumps of sugar till it is a clear thin syrup, then colour it with six drops of cochineal. Turn the puddings upon a hot dish, pour the sauce round them, and serve. The appearance of the dish will be improved if white sugar is sifted over, and if a little ring of angelica is placed upon each pudding (July 12th). Cheese (June 8th). Things that must not be Forgotten. 1. Turn and rub the beef in the brine. 2. Before putting away the bottle of capers, be careful to fill it up with fresh vinegar. This will help to preserve the flavour and pre¬ vent mould. 3. Make a pickle with half a pint of vinegar, a quarter of a pint of water, one onion stuck with six cloves, two bay -leaves, and a little salt and whole pepper. Put the fresh leg of mutton into this, and turn and rub it every day till wanted. 4. Make a little mayonnaise for the salmon salad to-morrow (August 30th). March 20th. Breakfast. Mushrooms. Potted Partridge. Hot Buttered Toast. Dry Toast. Radishes. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Corn Flour Milk. Luncheon. Salmon with Salad (made tinned salmon). Macaroni Cheese. Dinner. Skate with Brown Butter Sauce.