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

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To give additional food value, a spoonful of rolled oats which have been soaked in milk can be mixed with any of the above filling.

Owning one of these books speaks to the kind of person we are or, more accurately, would like to be.Quickly, everyone around the table admits to having a copy of Patten’s seminal book, Cookery in Colour – a book so ubiquitous that its now dated cover is almost instantly recognizable on a shelf.

So you find Mock Fish Cakes: potatoes and beans cooked with lemon juice and anchovy paste to create that “fish” sense.Blend half with the crabmeat, then add the required amount of lemon juice, mace, mustard powder and seasoning. On hearing of her death, Woman’s Hour presenter Jane Garvey said, ‘Before everyone else there was Marguerite Patten. I don’t want to impose on someone who is 98, God knows she deserves some rest, but we really, really need the American soul mate here.