DEDICATION
EUNICE MAY FROTTLEY

(1923–2004)

Many of the recipes in this book are family heirlooms handed down to me by my grandmother, who was a simply wonderful cook. As a young bride, she kept a comprehensive journal of favourite recipes clipped from magazines, as well as numerous lists she had compiled, with fascinating headings such as ‘Interesting Herbs’ or ‘Dazzling Desserts’. She even had a section labelled ‘Things to Never Try Again’, which contained a recipe for borage-ginger soup, along with a photograph of the coal delivery boy.