Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches

call it) all over the pile of cake, &c., and then sift powdered sugar over it. Set it in a very slow oven till the outside becomes a light brown colour. Serve it up cold, ornamented according to your taste. If you find the chocolate cream too thin, add more maccaroons. If the almond cream is too thin, mix in more pounded citron. If either of the mixtures is too thick, dilute it with more cream. This is superior to a Charlotte Russe. APPLE COMPOTE. Take large ripe pippin apples. Pare, core, and weigh them, and to each pound allow a pound of fine loaf-sugar and two lemons. Parboil the apples, and then set them out to cool. Pare off very nicely with a penknife the yellow rind of the lemons, taking care not to break it; and then with scissors trim the edges to an even width all along. Put the lemon-rind to boil in a little sauce-pan by itself, till it Becomes tender, and then set it to cool. Allow half a pint of water to each pound of sugar; and when it is melted, set it on the fire in the preserving kettle, put in the apples, and boil them slowly till they are clear and tender all through, but not till they break; skimming the syrup carefully. After you have taken out the apples, add the lemon-juice, put in the lemon-peel, and boil it till quite transparent. When the whole is cold, put the apples with the syrup into glass dishes, and dispose the wreaths of lemon-peel fancifully about them. ANIMALS FIGURES EXPLANATORY OF THE PIECES INTO WHICH THE FIVE LARGE ANIMALS ARE DIVIDED BY THE BUTCHERS. Beef. [Illustration: 1. Sirloin. 10. Fore Rib: 7 Ribs. 2. Rump. 11. Middle Rib: 4 Ribs. 3. Edge Bone. 12. Chuck Rib: 2 Ribs. 4. Buttock. 13. Brisket. 5. Mouse Buttock. 14. Shoulder, or Leg of Mutton Piece 6. Leg. 15. Clod. 7. Thick Flank. 16. Neck, or Sticking Piece. 8. Veiny Piece. 17. Shin. 9. Thin Flank. 18. Cheek.] Veal. [Illustration: 1. Loin, Best End. 6. Breast, Best