Marguerite Patten's 1,000 Favourite Recipes by Marguerite Patten (1855-08-06)

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That is the unifying theme throughout her career, from the day she started at Frigidaire to the moment she stopped writing: her many, many cookbooks are testament to a life spent teaching countless readers and children of readers and grandchildren of readers how to cook simply and with confidence. She covers soups, fish dishes, meat, poultry, and game, vegetables, salads, and savory dishes as well as puddings, baking, and preserves. Either fry in hot oil in exactly the same way and for the same time as whitebait, or fry in hot butter in a frying pan for 5 to 6 minutes.

Choose a refreshing Cucumber Sauce (see page 106) or salad dressing, such as those on page 212, with potted fish, one of the fruit sauces on pages 191 and 192 with potted meat and game or cheese. During this time she also began to appear on BBC radio, first for their daily Kitchen Front series and later for a new afternoon programme, Woman’s Hour. M Godding Books Ltd is an internet book business running from Wiltshire and sending books all over the world every working day. I love Marguerite Patten too, always used to use her cookbook when I was young and cooking at my mum and dad's house.

The role required a sense of performance that captured Patten’s imagination and sent her down the path of home economy.

I think most people would agree that the success of good cooking depends on the skill of the cook but also on the availability of first class ingredients. You can leave your fruit whole in chunks if you prefer or if you prefer a smother jam, blitz it with a hand held blender, careful not to splash yourself with boiling hot jam though!

Shepard’s Pie was served on Tuesday or Wednesday, using the leftover meat from Sunday’s big meal, if a big meal was to be had. You could serve small portions of the fish or vegetable dishes in the book, as well as those in this section. Here she turns her attention to one of her real true passions: the classic cookery of the British Isles. Put the hamburgers on buns and keep warm until required – do not overcook otherwise they dry and toughen. Jam is set when it reaches 105 degrees C (if using a sugar thermometer) or when it becomes thick enough to coat the back of a spoon – dripping slowly off it.Sometimes people forget that less expensive fish, cuts of meat and poultry and vegetables have just as much good flavour as the more costly food. Serve at once with a colourful mixed salad, which should include slices of crisp dessert apple, dipped in lemon juice to preserve the colour. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies.