A WEEK'S BUDGET.
(To rag EDITOR OF THE ""SPECTATOR.")
Sea,—I do not think that " Not a Vegetarian," in the Spectator of March 9rd, lays out her 3d. per head per day for meat at all advantageously. It is extravagant to use shin of beef for soup, unless ordered for invalids'. beef tea. Soup- can be made at least five days a week with stock made from the bones of the joints. If this gives out, excellent soup can be made with peas and lentils in winter, and vegetables in summer, without stock. tI should lay out my Sd. per head in this way. Seven people would Allow 12.3..ad. a week—i.e., nine -pounds of .meat at is. .4d. Get IMP ti leg.: kauekle end; weighing five poundso and cut it in half. • First daye-Bailed • mutton ; (smallest end,! about- two pounds), -keep the water this is boiled in for stock, and keep' the bone: Second day—Barley soup and hot roast! mutton' (tither pieta. of the joint). Third day--Lentil soup, curried') mutton; Fourth day—Rice soup, and four pounds! top side of beef, hot Fifth day—Bhtter-bean song," coldt 4o3ef. Sixth day—Pea soup (thick), vegetable pie. Seventh day— Hot suet roll made of beef andientil soup. If your corres.pondentl cares -to.. write- to me,- care of the - Spectator, I -will send her reelpero for anything in the above; or if I can help her in any other way I will with plearare. I have kept housteon semi' meanst
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