cuits, and prick them with a clean
fork. Or melt six or seven ounces of butter, with a sufficient quantity
of new milk warmed to make seven pounds of flour into a stiff paste.
Roll it thin, and make it into biscuits.

BENTON SAUCE. Grate some horse-radish, or scrape it very fine. Add to it
a little made mustard, some pounded white sugar, and four large
spoonfuls of vinegar. Serve it up in a saucer: this is good with hot or
cold roast beef.

BILLS OF FARE, or list of various articles in season in different
months.

JANUARY.----_Poultry._ Game, pheasants, partridges, hares, rabbits,
woodcocks, snipes, turkeys, capons, pullets, fowls, chickens, tame
pigeons.--_Fish._ Carp, tench, perch, eels, lampreys, crayfish, cod,
soles, flounders, plaice, turbot, skate, thornback, sturgeon, smelts,
whitings, crabs, lobsters, prawns, oysters.--_Vegetables._ Cabbage,
savoys, coleworts, sprouts, brocoli, leeks, onions, beet, sorrel,
chervil, endive, spinach, celery, garlic, potatoes, parsnips, turnips,
shalots, lettuces, cresses, mustard, rape, salsify, herbs dry and
green.--_Fruit._ Apples, pears, nuts, walnuts, medlars, grapes.

FEBRUARY, MARCH.----Meat, fowls and game, as in January, with the
addition of ducklings and chickens.--_Fish._ As the last two months,
except that cod is not thought so good, from February to
July.--_Vegetables._ The same as the former months, with the addition of
kidney beans.--_Fruit._ Apples, pears, forced strawberries.

APRIL, MAY, JUNE.----_Meat._ Beef, mutton, veal, lamb, venison in
June.----_Poultry._ Pullets, fowls, chickens, ducklings, pigeons,
rabbits, leverets.--_Fish._ Carp, tench, soles, smelts, eels, trout,
turbot, lobsters, chub, salmon, herrings, crayfish, mackarel, crabs,
prawns, shrimps.--_Vegetables._ As before, and in May, early potatoes,
peas, radishes, kidney beans, carrots, turnips, early cabbages,
cauliflowers, asparagus, artichokes, all sorts of forced
sallads.--_Fruit._ In June, strawberries, cherries, melons, green
apricots, gooseberries and currants for tarts. In July, cherries,
strawberries, pears, melons, gooseberries, currants, apricots, grapes,
nectarines, peaches; but most of these are forced.

JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER.--Meat as before.--_Poultry._ Pullets, fowls,
chickens, rabbits, pigeons, green geese, leverets, turkey poults,
plovers, wheatears, and geese in September.--_Fish._ Cod, haddock,
flounders, plaice, skate, thornback, mullets, pike, carp, eels,
shellfish,