Preheat oven to 325 F (160 C). Peel halve and core the pears, keeping them in water which you have acidulated with half the lemon juice. Dissolve the honey in the water, add the other half of the lemon juice and bring to the boil. Transfer to an oven proof dish or pan large enough [...]

Melt the butter in a pan. Add sugar; heat until well blended. Dissolve soda in milk; add gradually to sugar mixture. Stir until well blended and set aside to cool. Beat eggs lightly. Add salt and cooled milk-and-sugar mixture. Put bread cubes into greased baking dish; pour custard over. Bake in preheated 350F oven about [...]

Preheat oven to 350 deg. Butter the insides of 6 muffin cups in a large muffin tin. Cook bacon until most of the fat is rendered out but bacon is still limp. Place 1 slice each into the bottom of the buttered muffin cups (curl around so that bottom is completely covered. Crack 1 egg [...]

Finely chop onion. Mix bread crumbs, cheese, and onion. Season to taste. Beat together 1 egg and 1 egg yolk and use to bind mixture. Beat egg white and fold in bread crumbs. Shape bread crumb mixture into 12 “sausages” and roll in flour. Coat in beaten egg white and raspings. Fry in hot fat [...]

Combine fruit and kirsch and fold into the whipped cream. Chill well. Other berries or fruits may be substituted for the raspberries.

Rub the raspberries through a fine sieve and add enough cream to make 1 pint (2 1/2 cups). Heat the cream and raspberry puree to just below boiling point. Beat together the egg yolks, sugar, mace and orange-flower water. Pour the cream and raspberry mixture into the egg mixture in a thin stream and beat [...]

Roast the apples in a baking pan at 450F for about an hour, or until they are very soft and begin to burst. (An alternative – and quicker- procedure is to peel and boil the apples until they are very soft and flaky.) You may leave the apples whole, or break them up. In a [...]

Trim cutlets and brown on both sides in fat or oil. Slice the mushrooms and soften them in the same pan. Put the meat & mushrooms in a casserole. In a small pan, heat worcester sauce, redcurrant jelly and lemon juice. Blend together. In the remaining fat in the pan, fry the flour until it [...]

Slice the potatoes and onions thinly and put them in a saucepan with the shelled peas (weighed shelled), the lettuce and half the chicken stock. Bring gently to the boil, cover and simmer quarter of an hour. Pour into a blender or liquidiser and blend to a puree. Return to the rinsed out pan, reheat [...]