Sunday.
- Roast Fowl.
- Baked Potatoes.
- Oranges in Snow.
The last-named dish is such a pretty one, and so exceedingly nice, that as Marion does not mind we will give the recipe in full.
Oranges in Snow.—Make a syrup of half a pint of water and half a pound of loaf sugar. Pare six oranges very carefully and put them in the syrup; let them simmer very gently until they are perfectly tender but quite whole. Lift them carefully out with a fish-slice, and put in two ounces of tapioca. Let the tapioca cook until clear and soft in the syrup, by which time most of the syrup will be absorbed. Pour this into a glass dish and let it get cold, stand the oranges upon it, sweeten some whipped cream and pile it upon them, and decorate with a few hundreds and thousands sprinkled over.
Now follows the food account for the week.
| £ | s. | d. | |
| 1¼ lb. rump steak | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 lb. mutton at 7d. (Australian) | 0 | 2 | 11 |
| ¼ lb. suet | 0 | 0 | 1½ |
| 1 lb. fat for rendering | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 lb. apples | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| ½ pint lentils | 0 | 0 | 1½ |
| Flavouring vegetables | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Turnips | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Carrots for soup | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| New carrots | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Onions | 0 | 0 | 1½ |
| Lemon sole | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 15 eggs | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 lbs. bacon | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Fowl | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 1 lb. cheese | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 9 scallops | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 1 lb. marmalade | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1 lb. tea | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| Tin of cocoa | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1 lb. Demerara | 0 | 0 | 1¾ |
| 1 lb. loaf | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 loaves | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Milk | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| Cream | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 8 lbs. potatoes | 0 | 0 | 6½ |
| 1 lb. artichokes | 0 | 0 | 1½ |
| 1 quartern household flour | 0 | 0 | 5½ |
| £1 | 1 | 8¾ |
(To be continued.)