May Recipe

Fish.

Turbot, salmon, soles, smelts, trout, whiting, mackerel, herrings, eels,

plaice, flounders, crabs, lobsters, prawns, shrimps, crawfish.

Game and Poultry.

Pullets, fowls, chickens, guinea-fowl, green geese, ducklings, pigeons,

tame rabbits, leverets, and sometimes turkey poults.

Fruit.

Strawberries, green apricots, cherries, gooseberries, and currants, for

tarts, hothouse pineapples, grapes, apricots, peaches, and fine

cherries.

Roots and Vegetables.

Spring carrots, horseradish, beet-root, early cauliflower, spring

cabbage, sprouts, spinach, coss, cabbage, and Silesia lettuces, all

sorts of small salads, asparagus, hotspur beans, peas, fennel, mint,

balm, parsley, all sorts of sweet herbs, cucumbers and French beans

forced, radishes, and young onions, mushrooms in the cucumber beds.