Short Recipes

Some recipes I’ve tried. With comments. Most have links to recipes. A few have short instructions. All were, one way or another, successful.

Waldorf Salad

You can sell this to the anti‐salad crew. Every time. Make it look industrial. Ask me, Waldorf Salad should look industrial. Ignore all pictures and variations on the web,

• Celery

• Green apples

• Lemon juice

• Walnuts

Dice apples and celery, then tip lemon and spoonful of caster sugar on top. Stops the apple browning.

• Cheap mayonnaise (not olive‐oil based)

• Mustard

Stir in. Then add,

• Raisins/sultanas

• Chopped walnuts

• Lettuce

Stir the mix, then dump into the middle of a bowl of lettuce leaves.

Golden Soup

I’ve got some grief here. Look on the web and you’ll find a hundred recipes for ‘Golden Soup’, and they are nothing like what I know. But I can’t source the original recipe. Try this,

• Onions

• Apples

• Potatoes, equal to apples

• Curry powder

• Stock

• Salt and Pepper

English soup style—fry onions, tip in diced potatoes and apples, fry on the curry powder, boil in stock, then blend. The result is nothing like what you put in. Magic.

Drop Pancakes

To me a pancake is risen by heat and air, and has no sugar. A scone has milk and sugar and is risen with bicarbonate. So a drop pancake is not a drop scone, and neither are a Scotch pancake or maybe even a griddle scone. I liked the Scotch Pancake recipe by Nigella Lawson, ’cos it’s got golden syrup and no butter, so seems proper. But didn’t have the ingredients. Then I hit on this post‐war Be‐Ro Drop Scone Recipe, which is scorched, poor, and the truth. So, scones it was for Pancake day.

Yellow Rice and Chicken

If you don’t dig yellow rice, you’re mean. I tried several recipes, didn’t like them, didn’t have ingredients, did this,

Get a used roast chicken, boil/scrpe all the bits left over off the bone. Keep boiling liquid as stock,

• Onions

• Garlic

• Some form of chicken

• Rice

• Peas

• Turmeric

• Soya sauce

Chop garlic/onions, fry, throw in chicken and rice, top with turmeric, fry for minute until rice transparent, pour in stock, cover, leave for half an album. Peas in ten mins before end.

Keema

Indian mince. Don’t forget, some people don’t like or think much of curries. But Keema rocks. I used the Felicity Cloake writup but with beef mince. Lamb mince— what’s that, where did you get it, we can’t use that, I don’t want that, can you microwave it? No.