Supper. Cold bacon (same as at dinner). Potatoes baked in their skins. Cocoa. HOMELY FARE. 519 Saturday. Bi-eakfast. Steamed bacon (same as at supper). Potatoes and greens, fried together a la Dorsetshire, a farm-house practice. Dinner. The other half of Wednesday's mutton (4 lbs. 8 ozs.), steamed. Caper sauce. Potatoes. Turnips (from garden). Pancakes. Siippe?'. Soup. Rice pudding. Sardines. There is always a saucepan for bones, which are chopped and boiled with one onion, pepper, and salt. The liquor is put aside in a basin, and the fat skimmed before using ; in this way there is always enough for soup once, sometimes twice a week, and for gravy for minces, &c. Chop one onion fine and fry in butter. Boil the liquor and onion together. Cut into very small dice a small raw potato ; put it in the tureen and pour the boiling soup over it. This may sometimes be varied by using very small squares of fried bread instead of the potato, or rice, or tapioca. The round tapioca looks best, and must be thoroughly cooked before mixing with the soup. SECOND WEEK. Sunday. Breakfast. 4 rounds of buttered anchovy toast. Tea. Bread. Din7ier. Roast shoulder of mutton, 5 lbs. Bread sauce. Potatoes. Beetroot (from garden). Swiss apple pudding. Mode of latter. — Grate half a piedishful of bread ; slice apples ; butter pie-dish ; place alternate layers of bread and apple, begin 520 HOMELY FARE. ning with bread ; sprinkle sugar. Bread should be at the top, and bits of butter. Bake one hour✪ Swiss Apple Pudding. Supper Cold shoulder of mutton. Pickles. Open plum tart. Monday. Breakfast. I bowl of bread and milk. 2 poached eggs on buttered toast. I :[ lbs. cold steamed bacon. Tea. Bread. Dinner. Mutton rissoles from shoulder. Mashed potatoes. Cabbage (from garden). Lemon roly pudding. Mode. — Soyer's recipe. Cut off the peel of 2 lemons very thin ; as, if any white remains, it will be bitter ; squeeze all the juice out into a small basin, taking out the pips. Chop the peel very fine. Add the lemon juice, and plenty of sugar, and a few bread crumbs or plain biscuits ground to powder ; this is to give the mixture consistency ; make paste and proceed as for a jam roly. The pudding should boil for 3 hours✪ Lemon Roly Pudding. Supper. Cafe au lait. 2 rounds of buttered anchovy tcast. Cold bacon. Tuesday. B^-eakfast. Fried bacon and potatoes, or fried toast if no potatoes are left. Tea. Bread. Di7ine7'. ^ calf's head (medium size), boiled. Parsley and butter sauce. \ lb. of sausage meat made into little balls and fried. Potatoes. Baked batter pudding with treacle. Supper. Cocoa. Boiled macaroni, as previously described. HOMELY FARE. 521 Wednesday. B^'eakfast. Pig's brains ; 3^. worth is enough for 5 people. Arrange in layers with bread crumbs and butter ; bake f hour in a brisk oven. Sardines. Tea. Bread. Dinne7: I ^ lbs. veal cutlets. Potatoes. Beetroot (from garden). Tapioca pudding. \ lb. stewed prunes. Suppe?'. Soup from the bones and boilings of calf's head. Small galan- tine from ditto.

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Supper. Cold bacon (same as at dinner). Potatoes baked in their skins. Cocoa. Saturday. Breakfast. Steamed bacon (same as at supper). Potatoes and greens, fried together a la Dorsetshire, a farm-house practice. Dinner. The other half of Wednesday's mutton (4 lbs. 8 ozs.), steamed. Caper sauce. Potatoes. Turnips (from garden). Pancakes. Supper. Soup. Rice pudding. Sardines. There is always a saucepan for bones, which are chopped and boiled with one onion, pepper, and salt. The liquor is put aside in a basin, and the fat skimmed before using ; in this way there is always enough for soup once, sometimes twice a week, and for gravy for minces, &c. Chop one onion fine and fry in butter. Boil the liquor and onion together. Cut into very small dice a small raw potato ; put it in the tureen and pour the boiling soup over it. This may sometimes be varied by using very small squares of fried bread instead of the potato, or rice, or tapioca. The round tapioca looks best, and must be thoroughly cooked before mixing with the soup. SECOND WEEK. Sunday. Breakfast. 4 rounds of buttered anchovy toast. Tea. Bread. Dinner. Roast shoulder of mutton, 5 lbs. Bread sauce. Potatoes. Beetroot (from garden). Swiss apple pudding. Mode of latter. — Grate half a piedishful of bread ; slice apples ; butter pie-dish ; place alternate layers of bread and apple, begin ning with bread ; sprinkle sugar. Bread should be at the top, and bits of butter. Bake one hour. Supper Cold shoulder of mutton. Pickles. Open plum tart. Monday. Breakfast. I bowl of bread and milk. 2 poached eggs on buttered toast. I :[ lbs. cold steamed bacon. Tea. Bread. Dinner. Mutton rissoles from shoulder. Mashed potatoes. Cabbage (from garden). Lemon roly pudding. Mode. — Soyer's recipe. Cut off the peel of 2 lemons very thin ; as, if any white remains, it will be bitter ; squeeze all the juice out into a small basin, taking out the pips. Chop the peel very fine. Add the lemon juice, and plenty of sugar, and a few bread crumbs or plain biscuits ground to powder ; this is to give the mixture consistency ; make paste and proceed as for a jam roly. The pudding should boil for 3 hours. Supper. Cafe au lait. 2 rounds of buttered anchovy tcast. Cold bacon. Tuesday. Breakfast. Fried bacon and potatoes, or fried toast if no potatoes are left. Tea. Bread. Dinner. ^ calf's head (medium size), boiled. Parsley and butter sauce. \ lb. of sausage meat made into little balls and fried. Potatoes. Baked batter pudding with treacle. Supper. Cocoa. Boiled macaroni, as previously described. Wednesday. B^'eakfast. Pig's brains ; 3^. worth is enough for 5 people. Arrange in layers with bread crumbs and butter ; bake f hour in a brisk oven. Sardines. Tea. Bread. Dinner. I ^ lbs. veal cutlets. Potatoes. Beetroot (from garden). Tapioca pudding. \ lb. stewed prunes. Suppe?'. Soup from the bones and boilings of calf's head. Small galantine from ditto.

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