Posted in - Mrs C.S. Peel's Recipes & Vegetarian on October 10th 2013
comfort French rice soup
Lunch today was unplanned. Often when I am alone I don’t have any, or sampling the recipes which is my every day task, is enough. My husband turned up unexpectedly and I opened The Daily Mail Cookery Book, 1922, in the hope that inspiration would pop out of the page…. and it did! We had …
Posted in - Mrs C.S. Peel's Recipes & Puddings & Recipes on October 3rd 2013
milk pudding nutmeg rice sago strawberry jam tapioca
This is a love it or hate it Marmite recipe. I love it; my husband hates it!
In the words of Granny Dot:
‘To Make Milk Puddings
Cool Oven. Time, 3 hours.
Ingredients – 2 ozs. of any farinaceous food, such as rice, sago, tapioca; 1 pint of milk, or milk and water; 1 tablespoonful of sugar; …
Posted in - Mrs C.S. Peel's Recipes & Poultry on September 29th 2013
chicken pancetta pilaf pilau rice saffron
What makes this dish special is the saffron. Bacon is always a bonus and because I had very thinly sliced pancetta in the fridge, the combination of it with the rice was light and perfect. So if you can get some very fine pancetta or something similar, it is worth the texture difference. Streaky bacon …
Posted in - Recipes & Seafood on January 11th 2013
rice smoked haddock
I was so tempted to get an Indian takeaway but a lonely smoked haddock was sitting in the fridge and from it came this dish. My husband tasted it and said, “This is nothing like we had in the army. More please.”
Ingredients
50g unsalted butter
1 onion finely diced
1 large tomato, seeds removed and chopped into tiny …