The British Cookery Book

A committee of ladies collected the receipts; the editor of the Manual of Domestic Economy arranged them — British cookery and household management, c.1864.

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JANUARY.

Potatoes. MEAT. - Beef, mutton, pork, and house-lamb. POULTRY AND GAME. --Pheasants, partridges, hares, rabbits, woodcocks, snipes, wild fowl, turkeys, capons, pullets, fowls, chickens, pigeons, and larks.

FISH. Carp, tench, perch, lampreys, eels, pike, cod, soles, flounders, plaice, turbot, skate, smelts, whitings, lobsters, crabs, crayfish, prawns, oysters Cod's head and shoulders.

Stewed mushrooms.

Beef stewed with peas.

Baked batter pudding with damsons. (s) Potatoes. (t) (u) (0) (20) Potatoes.

OCTOBER.

Brace of partridges.

Harico.

Potato fritters.

Roast sirloin of beef.

Potatoes-Spinach.

Milk custard.

Damson pudding.

NOVEMBER.

Goose.

Potatoes.

Swiss Pudding.

Peas-pudding.

Potatoes.

Boiled leg of pork.

Bread pudding.

Tartlets.

DECEMBER.

Pig's puddings.

Hare. (x) Potatoes.

Apple charlotte.

Rice pudding.

Turkey.

Chine.

Plum pudding.

Mince pies.

VEGETABLES.-Cabbage, savoys, colewort, sprouts, brocoli, sea-kale, leeks, onions, beet, sorrel, endive, spinach, celery, garlick, potatoes, 'parsnips, turnips, shalots, lettuces, cresses, mustard, herbs of all sorts, dry or green.

Vegetable FRUIT. - Apples, pears, nuts, walnuts, medlars, oranges, and grapes. marrows.

Jerusalem artichokes.

Brocoli. 1260. IN SEARCHING FOR VARIETY, the housekeeper may receive some assistance from the following list of articles in season in the different months throughout the year.

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