This section is from the book "The Illustrated London Cookery Book", by Frederick Bishop. See also: How to Cook Everything.
Meats: Beef, mutton, veal, pork, house-lamb.
Poultry: Pheasants, partridges, hares, rabbits, woodcocks, snipes, turkeys, pullets, capons, fowls, and pigeons.
Fish: Oysters, prawns, crabs, lobsters, cray-fish, whitings, smelts, sturgeon, skate, turbot, plaice, thornback, flounders, perch, tench, and carp.
Vegetables: Cabbage and sprouts, sorrel, endive, spinach, beetroot, celery, scorzanera, potatoes, parsnips, turnips, broccoli shalots, lettuces, cresses, salsify, cucumbers, and. asparagus; mushrooms all the year.
Fruits: Pears, apples, nuts, grapes, medlars, and walnuts.
All meats and game as in the former month, with the addition of chickens and ducklings.
Fish: Exactly as last month, excepting cod, which is not supposed to be quite so good, up to July.
Vegetables: Just the same as the previous month, only now you have kidney beans.
Fruits: Apples and pears, and forced strawberries.
Meats: Beef, mutton, veal, lamb, and in June venison.
Poultry: Pullets, fowls, chickens, ducklings, pigeons, rabbits,' and leverets.
Vegetables as before, only in Mat early potatoes, peas, radishes, French, beans, early cabbages, carrots and turnips, cauliflowers, asparagus, artichokes, and all kinds of salad, but this is forced.
Fruits: In June, strawberries, cherries, melons, green apricots, currants, and gooseberries for tarts only.
Fish: Carp, soles, tench, smelts, eels, trout, turbot, lobsters, chub, salmon, herrings, cray-fish, mackerel, crabs, prawns, and shrimps.
Meats: These are not different from the former months, except Pork, which commences in September.
Poultry: Pullets, fowls, chickens and rabbits, pigeons and green geese, leverets, turkeys; poults, the two former months; wheatears and geese in September.
Fish: Cod, haddocks, flounders, skate, thornback, mullet,pike and carp, eels and shell fish, but no oysters; mackerel in July, it is not so good in August.
Vegetables: All as the previous months; peas and beans.
Fruits: July, strawberries, gooseberries, pine apples, plums of all kinds, cherries, apricots, raspberries, melons, damsons, white and red currants, pears, apples, grapes, nectarines, and peaches.
Peaches, plumbs, filberts, figs, mul-benrieSj cherries, apples and pears, nectarines, grapes, pines and melons, strawberries.
Meats do not differ, this is the season for good doe venison.
Poultry And Game: Fowls of all kinds as the former quarter, pheasants from the 1st October, partridges, larks, hares, wild ducks; late in the month, teal, snipes, widgeon, and grouse.
Fish: Dories, smelts, pike, perch, halibuts, brills, carp, salmon, trout, barbel gudgeon, tench, all shell fish.
Vegetables are now as in January month.
Fruits: Peaches, pears, figs, bullaces, grapes, apples, medlars, damsons, filberts, walnuts, nuts, quinces.
Meats: Beef, mutton, veal, pork, house lamb, doe vension. Poultry, game, fish, vegetables, and fruits. - As the last month.
Meats as the former month.
Poultry: Geese, turkeys, pullets, pigeons, capons, fowls, rabbits, hares, snipes, woodcocks, larks, pheasants, sea-fowls, Guinea fowls, wild ducks, teal, widgeon, grouse, and dunbirds.
Vegetables: As in the last month.
Fish: Turbot, gurnets, soles, sturgeon, carp, gudgeon, eels, codlings, dories, and shell fish of all kinds.
 
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