uor in which meat
has been boiled makes an excellent soup for the poor, by adding to it
vegetables, oatmeal, or peas. When whites of eggs are used for jelly, or
other purposes, a pudding or a custard should be made to employ the
yolks. If not immediately wanted, they should be beat up with a little
water, and put in a cool place, or they will soon harden, and become
useless. It is a great mistake to imagine that the whites of eggs make
cakes and puddings heavy: on the contrary, if beaten long and
separately, they contribute greatly to give lightness. They are also an
advantage to paste, and make a pretty dish beaten with fruit, to set in
cream. All things likely to be wanted should be in readiness; sugars of
different sorts, currants washed, picked, and perfectly dry; spices
pounded, and kept in very small bottles closely corked, but not more
than are likely to be used in the course of a month. Much waste may be
prevented by keeping every article in the place best suited to it.
Vegetables will keep best on a stone floor, if the air be excluded. Meat
in a cold dry place. Salt, sugar, and sweetmeats require to be kept dry;
candles cold, but not damp. Dried meats and hams the same. Rice, and all
sorts of seeds for puddings and saloops, should be close covered to
preserve from insects; but that will not prevent it, if long kept.

KITCHEN GARDEN. Here a little attention will be requisite every month in
the year, as no garden can be long neglected, without producing weeds
which exhaust the soil, as well as give a very slovenly
appearance.--JANUARY. Throw up a heap of new dung to heat, that it may
be ready to make hotbeds for early cucumbers, and raising of annuals for
the flower garden. Dig up the ground that is to be sown with the spring
crops, that it may lie and mellow. Nurse the cauliflower plants kept
under glasses, carefully shut out the frost, but in the middle of milder
days let in a little air. Pick up the dead leaves, and gather up the
mould about the stalks. Make a slight hotbed in the open ground for
young sallads, and place hoops over it, that it may be covered in very
cold weather. Sow a few beans and peas, and seek and destroy snails and
other vermin.--FEBRUARY. Dig and level beds for sowing radishes, onions,
carrots, parsnips, and Dutch lettuce. Leeks and spinage should also be
sown in this month, likewise beets, celery, sorrel, and marigolds, with
any other of the hardy kinds. The best way with beans and pea