A tasty blend of cookery and hilarity, Two Fat Ladies was a hit on British and American television in the 1990s. Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright traveled around Britain on a motorbike with sidecar, preparing sumptuous feasts for all kinds of folks from lumberjacks to nuns. Their recipes were never pretentious and always full of big, old-fashioned flavor. Seen on public television.
Tomato summer pudding, bubble and squeak, beanz meanz Fitz, stuffed artichokes, and peaches Cardinal Hume for the clerics at Westminster Cathedral, London.
Egg mousse, roast goose with p?t? and prune stuffing, Swedish red cabbage, and Christmas pudding ice cream bombe for the Pilgrims' School Boys' Choir at Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire.
Galette des rois aux amandes, Yorkshire gingerbread, chopped walnut and coffee cake, and Danish apple and prune cake at a church bake sale in Hallaton, Leicestershire.
Crab fritters, fish pie, gigot of monkfish, and scallops with leeks at the Sharksfin Hotel in Mevagissey, Cornwall.
Roasted salmon with scallops in mustard butter, venison pasty, red peppers stuffed with aubergines, and chocolate egg snowballs for the air race at East Fortune Airfield, Scotland.