Barbara Stanwyck’s Roast Leg of Lamb
“I’m a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I’m ninety and they won’t need to paste my face with make-up.” Well, Barbara didn’t make it to ninety, but she was acting almost to...
View ArticleJimmy Stewart’s American Apple Pie
Tonight’s post is a slow process because to be frank, I am absolutely sloshed. Usually a fast touch typist, tonight this is like typing underwater… My lovely Walthamstow chums have been over for lunch...
View ArticleBarbara Stanwyck’s Kipfels
These were very cute, but next time I make them I will try to roll the dough much thinner. I think a trip to the cookshop is required, I think I need one of those mats for rolling stuff out on, you...
View ArticleBook Test Cook 11 – Barbara Stanwyck’s Spanish Style Steak
Barbara’s steak was good. Food writer guru Richard Ehrlich agrees with me that her recipe for Leg of Lamb is utterly bonkers. So I’m dropping the lamb and giving the steak a double thumbs up. I...
View ArticleSugarpuss O’Shea’s Strawberry Shortcake
This photo says it all really. Can there be anything more summery and delicious than strawberries and cream? With a bit of cake thrown in? I made these a donkeys age ago but summer socialising has...
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